Hyperfocal Distance

[lintoni]

The depth of field button does work in live view.

 

[RGF]

Do any Canon cameras (or any other manufacturers' cameras for that matter) have an option to provide the user with the hyperfocal distance for the camera's current lens focal length and F-stop settings? I would find this to be a useful function, and even better if the camera could, on operator command, set the lens to the hyperfocal distance (don't know if lenses are sufficiently calibrated to allow for this). If a smart phone app can calculate the hyperfocal distance, I see no reason why the camera manufacturers couldn't program their cameras to do it.

They could do lots of things but which of the 1000s of ideas should they do. Hyperfocal is not as simple as you might think. If you look at the equations, there is something called circle of confusion which basically is the amount of defocusing you are willing to tolerate. If you print 4x6 or only view your images on a monitor your circle of confusion can be fairly large. If you push your prints to the limits and want images to be tack sharp, then your circle is much smaller.