Dept of Field Data

[iND]

Thanks for all the great discussion. This is why I keep coming back to this forum.

I would settle for some inaccuracies in the DOF calculation it would not have to be exact.
Like I said maybe just a idiot light with an adjustable setting:
Something like a blinky if the DOF of field falls below a preset value.
Example: If my DOF panic light (even if not accurate to the cm) would blink if say the DOF fell below 1 meter, then I could back up and reframe, and not suffer the to post processing disappointment.

I would even settle for the values in the app based softwares that use the known data

Here is a good example where I started a series of shots then moved in to fill the frame, forgetting that my DOF fell to 27cm at one meter.
Result is (since I used a tight group of focus points (Mark III) the second girls is unacceptable. Not anyones fault except my own as I failed to think
SHRINKING DEPTH OF FIELD as I moved in. Wish I would have had a quick reminder. I could have simply stepped back, filled the frame with some unwanted detail but that could have been an easy crop in post processing (starting with 22mpx and is no big deal)