Simple DoF Calculator App Bewertungen

Das Program ist einfach und schnell zu bedienen. 2 Sterne Abzug, da in der Darstellung die Information fehlt, wie sich die Tiefenschärfe vom idealen Focuspunkt nach vorne und hinten verteilt (nach vorne ca. 1/3 nach hinten ca. 2/3) der gesamten Tiefenschärfe. So muß man leider weiterhin selber rechnen.

Jedem, der seine Fotos mit Schärfentiefe gestalten möchte kann ich diese APP nur wärmstens empfehlen.

Sehr schade, denn ich habe einige Male mit dem Entwickler gemailt, er besteht allerdings auf Richtigkeit, da eine andere Webseite den gleichen Fehler ausgibt. Wer fotografiert sollte den Fehler leicht verstehen. Gibt man ein 15 mm Objektiv bei einer DSLR und wählt Blende 8, eine Entfernung des Schärfepunkts von 0,5 Meter, gibt es die richtige DOF an, sprich mehr als einen Meter. Wählt man z.B. eine Canon G11 Sucherkamera mit kleinem Chip, dann auch 15 mm und Blende 8, beträgt die Schärfentiefe nur noch ein paar CM. Hier stimmt das Programm nicht, und da der Autor unbelehrbar ist, gibts leider auch null Punkte, naja einen muss man geben. Probiert die L Version, da tritt der Fehler auch auf.

Das Programm macht was es verspricht und läuft ohne Probleme. Alle Infos sind übersichtlich aufbereitet. Besonders gut hat mir der schnelle Support durch die Entwickler gefallen.

den ich bisher erlebt habe. Die App ist super, einfach zu bedienen und auf meine Email-Anfrage wurden innerhalb von 2 Tagen unterschiedliche Kamaratypen hinzugefügt. Sehr professionell!

Ein 50mm Objektiv hat die Brennweite 50mm und daran ändert der Crop Faktor auch nichts. Durch die Änderung von Vollformat auf Aps-c ändert sich der Zerstreuungskreis aber nicht die Brennweite. Bei diesem Programm kann man die Brennweite und die Kamera auswählen - da würde ich erwarten, dass dadurch der Zerstreuungskreis geändert wird. Das ist nicht der Fall, denn es wird die Brennweite durch den Crop Faktor geteilt. Ich möchte nicht die Brennweite mit dem Crop-Faktor ausrechnen müssen, sondern die ausgewählte Brennweite eingeben und das Programm rechnen lassen. Der Algorithmus ist richtig, wenn man das macht, aber in den EXIF Informationen steht bei einer Aps-c Kamera auch nicht 80mm, wenn man ein 50mm Objektiv drauf hat. Abgesehen von diesem Denkfehler ein übersichtliches Programm. Diesen Sachverhalt kann man bei Wikipedia#Schärfentiefe#Bildgestaltungmit Schärfentiefe nachlesen: "Bei kleinen Aufnahmeformaten,...., verkleinert sich der maximal zulässige Zerstreuungskreis, was den Schärfentiefebereich zunächst verkleinert. Die kleineren Aufnahmeformate erfordern jedoch proportional kleinere Objektivbrennweiten, um gleichbleibende Blickwinkel zu gewährleisten - das hingegen vergrößert den Schärfentiefebereich"

Die Lumix LX 7 ist nun auch drin. Vielen Dank!

Einfach zu bedienen. Berücksichtigt auch neue Kameras. Einstellungen für zwei Kameras oder Objektive möglich

Eine äußerst hilfreiche App! Die Bedienung ist kinderleicht und die App tut genau das, was sie soll! Die 1,79€ sind sehr gut angelegt!

Kurz und knapp einfach klasse app! Grafik, Bedienung sehr gelungen und nach letztem Update auch noch auf deutsch. Top

Klasse und jetzt auch auf Deutsch!

Macht was es soll, ohne Schnick-Schnack.

Man kann Werte einstellen jedoch rechnet diese App nichts ! Und dafür auch noch Geld bezahlt.

Top Einfach gut!

Hätte ich doch nur auf die 1 Sterne Rezension gehört. Die App rechnet genau wie eine andere Webseite verkehrt. Der Schärfebereich einer Sony RX10 (1" Zoll Sensor) liegt bei 50mm und F 2.8 bei 61,84cm. Bei der a6000 (APS-C) ist der Schärfebereich 1,13m und bei der A7 (Vollformat) bei 1,73m bei gleicher Brennweite und Blende. In den FAQs steht geschrieben, dass die Brennweite automatisch auf KB umgerechnet wird, also daran kann es nicht liegen. Also sehr interessant, dass je kleiner der Sensor ist, der scharfe Bereich größer wird. So ein Quatsch. Letztendlich sind also alle Angaben in der App ein Witz. Der Entwickler soll aber auf die Richtigkeit bestehen und sich auf die falsch rechnende Webseite berufen. Geld ist rausgeschmissen.

Die Buttons um zu der eigentlichen App zurück zu kommen fehlen entweder ganz beim Laden der App oder verschwinden einfach bei der Benutzung. Damit kommt man aus den Einstellungen nicht mehr raus. Einzige Möglichkeit: App löschen und neu installieren!

Ist auch für das iPhone 6 optimiert.

I would love for them to add the Sony a6700 ! I have the app but it’s missing would make it raise otherwise

Was a very good app, with both graphical and numeric feedback. Depiction of DoF is excellent. But lack of newer camera inclusion and silence from developers suggests moving on. A good implementation that’s not keeping up.

The new cameras are not included. Its time to update.

This has been my go to app for DoF but I recently bought an APS-C camera and asked the developer to include it in supported brands some time ago. A reply, either way, would have resulted in 5 rather than 4 stars.

I am an experienced award winning photographer and bought this app. I use a Nikon D 800. There are no instructions on use with this app , and little useable information. It’s a complete waste of $1.99.

Simple to use and understand...a great help when trying to achieve maximum dof

do not have the Canon EOS RP camera in the list. 😔

Easy to use and accurate. There are more complex ones out there, but they give the same answer, only to more decimal places (try setting your focus to 19.37 feet, I challenge you!). Definitely my go-to tool.

I tried some other DoF apps but none compare to the slick interface and ease of use of this one. Well worth the couple bucks.

Very easy to use. Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

Tried a number of DoF calculators. Most suffer from inconvenient method to enter data: focal length, distance, f/stop; you have to erase current value, then use the keyboard to enter new values. So slow in practice. Many offer long lists of camera models to choose from; kinda nice but the DoF calulation mostly related to sensor size, not camera model. Likely you only need to do this once, though. Many cameras models use the same or equivilent sensor. And lastly, the DoF formula is based on a specific value for the circle of confusion (CoC). (In fact when you pick a camera from the list, you are really selecting the CoC that will be used in the DoF calulation.) Many photographers prefer to choose a value that is somewhat smaller than commonly specified; this has the effect of suggesting a smaller f/stop and larger DoF. Here's where this app shines: it uses scroll wheels to enter data. This makes it incredibly easy to fine tune the DoF values when making compositional changes to focal length using a zoom lens. And in addition to the common list of camera models, you can simply select the CoC you want to use. It also support two camera model (or CoC settings) if you have cameras with different sensors. Whether you decide to use a Camera Model or select a CoC, this app is fast to use and easy to read DoF values. The fact that it's free is amazing!

Easy to use and does what it is supposed to do. Even offers no cost updates for new cameras. No attempt to sell me anything else. Nice.

It's one of the best I've tried so far. Good job!

A bit awkward and a little hard to view. OK for $1.99 but probably not worth more. TrueDoF Pro is better but more expensive.

Really nice app. Looks good and it's easy to use. Thanks for the update!

Much better than using a web based calculator, and way better than other abandoned DOF calculators in the App Store. Wish it was possible to add custom cameras (or at least rename the camera choices to match your kit), and the text in the "road" could be larger and easier to read in a hurry, but otherwise a perfect app.

I wish I had found this app years ago, it would have helped me turn so so projects into great projects. What I like best is that it's what I need and without all the clutter.

Very clean user interface, excellent selection of cameras, but doesn’t allow user to adjust circle of confusion diameter or reproduction ratio. What’s worse, I can’t even find their assumptions about these parameters. Excellent for beginners, not so much for pros.

Nicely designed app - simple, easy to use. I suggest rounding measurements to the nearest tenth of an inch. There are just too many numbers with hundredth of an inch display. Besides, I don't think DoF accuracy to the nearest hundredth of an inch is really necessary.

This is a fantastic app; it is well designed and easy to use. I love that you can set and keep up to four cameras with their own different settings, really handy if you have more that one, otherwise you would have to scroll through hundreds of them in its database to choose a different one. The last used settings are retained even if you quit the app. As per how accurate it is, I haven’t done any thorough testing yet, but it seems to be pretty good. One request: please add a setting for optionally displaying 1/3, 1/2, or full f-stops - less scrolling is always better, especially if you don’t have to. Thank you.

Every time I opened it freeze after a couple of seconds and the it closed.

The 4 number wheels make it very easy to quickly put in numbers. I find the other apps with sliders I could never get the sliders right where I wanted them. This one has the best graphical design that helps visualize the dof numbers it spits out. If they added calculations for lens tilt that would be nice.

With focus at the hyperfocal distance, depth of field extends from 1/2 the hyperfocal distance to infinity. Yes, I can do the math in my head, but I'd like to see that number on the screen too. Maybe to the left of the hyperfocal distance number? Thanks for the nice app!

I've tried a slew of these apps, and this takes the cake in terms of layout and ease of use. The slider wheels are very straightforward to use and the info is well displayed. I'm not sure what one reviewer was complaining about when he said they won't give you the distances in inches. It will say something like 1' 5.47". But converting 0.47 inches into fractions would be absurd. Also of great importance, the info yielded does seem to be correct, which I've confirmed by doing photo tests and also cross referencing it with other apps and websites. Interestingly, they don't all come up with *exactly* the same results, but they're close. The reason for this, and for many other questions about this (and other) app's accuracy, is that depth of field is a very subjective measure. It relies on a determination of what "acceptably sharp" means, and also varies depending on how much you enlarge your photo. That is essentially what crop sensors do, which is why the same 50 mm lens on a full frame will have a different DOF than it will on a crop sensor. Completely separate from that is the question of field of view. You can try and figure it all out--I have, but even I still get confused sometimes--or you can just rely on this app. Because it's right. My only other suggestion for an app in this category is called Lens Lab. It has a slightly different take on how to display the info. Kinda neat, but in terms of actual usability, I still prefer this one.

Actually at the price offered I consider it free. The calculations are perfect, the interface is great. I like the side by side cameras feature, comes in handy when I have more than one camera on a shooting session.

As mentioned by another reviewer it needs a bit more of an expanded range. I used it for some macro photography and it worked great for my 150mm prime at f/22.

Not very useful with long focal lenses. The developer needs to accept the fact that this app for the most part will be used for manual adjustments. For example, I have a manual zoom lens (non-TTL) that covers focal lengths from 650 through 1300. There is no way to calculate a precise hyperfocal plane because the app doesn't cover that range smoothly. The app should cover long ranges in non discrete fashion, because long glass has a very shallow depth of field requiring precise calculations. Forced extrapolations or interpolations just defeat its purpose.

Excelent excelent app

Quite nice! Simple, straight-forward.

Unfortunately the Nikon D7000 is not supported. It is not in the selection list of supported cameras even though the AppStore description claims it is supported. Disappointing. The app is easy to use and presents the data in a clean manner.

The inability of this app to translate DOF into inches rather than fractions of a foot made me uninstall it right away and revert to PhotoCalc. Too bad, I would have really liked to give a better review to this app that tries to offer a simple tool in an elegant graphical fashion but fails due to complete laziness on the part of the developer. When I'm trying to calculate DOF, I need a quick set of measurements, down to smallest increments, rather than being left with mental gymnastics.

At first glance i thought the math of this calculator was off. Why was it giving smaller DOF measurements for cameras with smaller sensors? It should be the opposite. But then i realized the difference between focal length and angle of view. If you take two cameras with the same 50mm lens, one camera w/ a full frame 35mm sensor and the other with a 1.5x crop sensor, the DOF of the 1.5x crop camera will actually be slightly smaller. The reason is that even though the camera has a smaller sensor (and therefore greater DOF) that lens is now behaving like a 75mm lens. So it is providing the angle of view and the DOF of a 75mm lens on a full frame body. If you want to compare the same angle of view between the two cameras then you need to compensate for the crop factor. In other words a full frame body w/ a 75mm lens will have shallower DOF then a 1.5x crop body w/ a 50mm lens and both cameras will have the same angle of view.

it would be nice to have the option to display the DOF in inches rather than fractions of a foot once it is under 6 inches or so. I just have a hard time getting my head around .05 feet. Of course this is a very shallow DOF, but the whole point of using an app like this is to be able to calculate just how shallow.

Great little tool. Much easier to use than other apps that use a slider or text entry. Well worth a few bucks!

I like how quick you can make adjustments to awe the results. I only wish the answers were in feet & inches (not just feet with a decimal).

This is a very easy to use app that makes calculating depth of field quick. My only suggestion to improve the program is that it would be nice if the depth of field could be set to display inches or feet. Worth the money!!!

As a long-time user of DOFMaster on the Palm and recent switch to iPhone, I downloaded Simple DoF Calculator based on the high reviews. Simple DoF Calculator makes data entry fast and simple because all data entry is done on one 3-slider wheel. DOF calculations are identical between the two (as they should be). Couldn't imagine a simpler and more straightforward way to design this app. It does exactly what it should and is attractive and very easy to use. Two minor quibbles: 1) The focus (distance) and focal length (lens) choices should run in consistent geometric progressions just like real cameras. It's odd to see choices of 90, 95, 100, then 101, 102, 103, ... for focal length, and a 1 mm precision at 100 mm is not really useful and makes it harder to find the right setting. Instead, have every choice be, for example, 5% or 20% bigger than the last one depending on whether fast spin mode is selected. Similar for f/stop. 2) Even though it is likely rarely needed (maybe never), it would be nice to have the focus setting go beyond 100 feet.

It's a nice little app that could be improved slightly. I really wish it had a camera bag function to store the lenses that you use allot and there aperture limits. Worth a dollar though, it's built better than allot of other apps.

I'm no genius but shouldn't you get shallower depth of field the larger the film plane? I like the interface. But if the math is wrong what's the point. I think I may have just wasted a buck.

Works as advertised! Invaluable DOF tool for photo noobies and enthusiasts. Since I always have my phone with me, the Simple DoF Calculator is always available.

Fast and efficient apps, worked just like advertised - The last entry retention feature is also nice Wished it had a manual feet/meter overide button...