Hey Kevin, that sounds like a deal @ $39.95, but I bet if the chart does all the apertures for all the lenses for distances from closest focus to infinity and also does the hyperfocal calculations it would need to fold up a few times to fit in your wallet and/or have pretty small print. Alternatively, it might take a few kilobytes of memory and a handful of cpu cylces (both of which are nearly free) and the salient results could be displayed in a field on one of the displays which would allow you to glance at the results rather than having to hunt and peck through rows and columns (and then fold up the paper and put it back in your wallet). We could do a lot of things on paper, but we there's a reason we try to do less and less of it - it's dead data. When we turn dead data into useful information we are going in the right direction. I know you were just adding humor (which is in precious short supply around here), so I appreciate the chuckle - I just wanted to emphasize that Nikon and we Nikon users could be benefiting from just a bit of creative thinking that might actually cost less than pure technological innovation. Yada
- yes, there is probably a limit to all this: so we might not necessarily need a display to remind us the lens cap is on, but even that could be a user configurable option

I have a tiny slip of paper in my wallet: a DOF chart. I suppose
you could bring all the might of modern computer power to bear, or
you could have a tiny (2x4cm) piece of paper.
In fact, for the price of a significant piece of software, say
$39.95, I'll send you a photocopy of my DOF chart.
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Tuktu Sijuktei
'Please tell me if the lens cap is on.'