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p.2 #15 · p.2 #15 · Can you get shallower Depth of Field on FF 35mm than 44 X 33 sensors? | |
Rand47 wrote:
For Pete's sake... how narrow would one want to go? As it is, shooting head and shoulders portraits with the 110 f/2 on the GFX, wide open, is way too narrow DOF to produce a pleasing image. E.g. eyes in focus, tip of nose badly out of focus. Get the nose sharp, eyes are way out. Get close enough in and you can have one freckle in focus and the next out of focus.
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Preferences vary, for sure, but that's sort of how I feel about super narrow DOF. Honestly, in most portrait situations you are better off using a slightly smaller aperture in many cases and then using factors including focal length, camera-to-subject distance, subject-to-background distance, the nature of that background, and lighting to produce the desired separation.
Notice that I did not write "always."
Not saying that there is no place for super narrow DOF — just that it is possible to have too little DOF in many cases. And, to loop back to my original post above...
... this just means that each photographer needs to weigh all of these variables against their typical subjects and approach to shooting in order to decide whether or not this approach is the ideal for them
YMMV,
Dan
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