On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:43:11AM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Wrong. Format ALWAYS influences apparent DOF.
You are saying that if I take a photo with a D800, and in lightroom crop it down so that I'm only using the area of a u4/3 sensor, then the apparant DoF will change? > > Your statement is a bunch of pixel peeping hooey promulgated by experts who > have never made a photograph. If this were true, all of the BS about wanting > full frame sensors to get shallow DoF is wrong .. And the theory is > demonstrably, easily observably wrong when the theory is tested by anyone who > has a FourThirds, APS-C, and full-frame camera to experiment with. > > I have all three and have observed that DoF differs format to format with the > same lens, exactly in accordance with the traditional calculations of DoF > published in "Basic Photography" by Focal Press circa 1958. > > Godfrey > > > > On Oct 3, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Actually, the size of the sensor has nothing to do with the DoF. The size of > > the pixels or grain, do affect the DoF. Don't worry, this is a common > > circle of confusion. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
