On: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 Giles Stokoe wrote:-

> William was almost there with
> 
>> the depth of field will be more than adequate.
> 
> But a more precise answer would help me decide to part with the cash.

May I repeat, the depth of field will be more than adequate, which is
precisely what you need.
 
> It is basically a purely practical yes/no question and I could set up a rig
> to test it if I had a digi, but I don't. I could also find out if I had some
> kind of table of fields of view for lenses of different focal length at
> different apertures. Which I don't either.

Do a web search, and you will find both in abundance.
 
> Or do the abberations means that one cannot actually use an aperture small
> enough to achieve the depth of field achieved on the 35mm, because the image
> would appear out of focus due to diffraction etc?

Buy yourself a decent digicam, and you will be happily surprised at how good
they are....focus and diffraction are different properties and you simply
don't really need to know this stuff....just buy a camera and get on with
it.

William Curwen   http://www.william.ws 

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