Originally Posted by
Corran
Pick the 135mm lens you want to use. Install it on your Crown. Focus the RF to a target at the most common distance you'll be shooting on a tripod, and lock the focus. Unscrew the infinity stops and let them loose, and then using the front standard adjustment, focus on the target mentioned previously. Once it is sharp, lock the front standard and tighten up the infinity stops to that placement of the front standard.
I guarantee you'll be well within the DOF when stopped to the normal working apertures you mentioned when focused roughly around that distance, and perhaps most distances. You'll want to test to be sure, but it's really not all that hard or dire like a lot of folks like to imply.
There was a user here a long time ago who did this and locked the focus at that point, and then focused by moving back and forth until the RF was aligned. He got wonderful shots in perfect focus even wide-open. There's plenty of ways to shoot this way, if you've got a bit of gumption and work with what ya got.
And Bob, the Linhof Multifocus Finder I have sitting here only works down to 10 feet with a 210mm lens. That image is clearly much closer. I really don't understand the constant shilling for Linhof.
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