Don't know if this is possible/worthwhile...
I've just bought the P5 upgrade for Mac and it has this nifty script to calculate the distance from camera to object. So, when doing DOF renders it gets me most of the way to setting things up properly. What I'd like to suggest is:
A script that will generate the camera to obj distance and also calculate the "in focus" range based on the other camera settings. Apply those calculations to 2 simple planes (which are parallel to the camera plane) marking each side of the "in focus" range. This would provide visual markers for the focal zone so you can clearly view what will be in/out of focus before rendering.
Don't know if it can be done - or even if anyone else wants to see it (LOL!)
Thanks everyone!
Lee

Message edited on: 05/16/2004 06:31