Photographer’s Aids

There are a number of devices that make calculations which aid a photographer. Some are slide rule like calculators, some are computer programs, some are web pages, some are books, and some are embodied in software for calculators and PDA’s.

I have surveyed some 16 of these.  A document is available for dowloading either as a pdf file or as a pdf file in zip format. The aids surveyed are:

1. The Rodenstock slide rule calculator.
2. Focus+, version 1.2. A Palm program.
3. Photographe, A palm program.
4. pCAM,  A palm program.
5. Suskin Online DOF Plotter.
6. Michael Gillett online DOF calculator.
7. Simon Walton online DOF calculator.
8. Depth of Field 1.0, A DOS program.
9. Schneider Optics Tables.
10. DFF-1. A plastic rule.
11. Davis’s Not just anogher depth of field calculator.  An Excel spreadsheet.
12. Loyd’s C code for DOF
13. Howard Merklinger’s books and papers.
14. BTZS and ExpoDev. A book and a Palm program.
15. Vade Mecum.  My software for a variety of devices.