> Rob wrote:
>
> > Is DOF in decline in general? Many many lenses these days
> do not have DOF
> > markings, now cameras seem to be throwing away the ability
> to make sense of
> > variable apertures easily.
>
>
> Rob,
> Most photographers don't understand EV relationships between
> different pairs
> of apertures and shutter speed values, and most photographers don't
> understand the relationship between aperture and
> depth-of-field. So perhaps
> the absence of these features is a bit like the absence of
> tachometers on
> cars that have automatic transmissions. Why give 'em
> information they can't
> make head nor tail of?
>
> --Mike
Mike, I have to take exception to your statement. Photographers do
understand EV relationships and the relationship between aperture and
depth-of-field. Owning and using a camera does not make you, or anyone else,
a photographer. The knowledge and application of it makes you a
photographer, and you don't have to earn a dime to be one.
Semantics perhaps, but in my mind, there is a difference.
Len
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