04-10-2011, 12:01 PM
Thanks Marcus. I guess I fail to realize how thin the dof really is (even at small aperture for long lenses). I mean I think about dof when composing an image but having grown use to short lenses intuitively I don't sense just how thin it is @ 200mm or even 400mm.
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Very nice image Wim; esp the one of the juvenile songthrush; the lighting really helps with emphasizing the details.
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They do, but not because the lens is soft, it's just the very limited DOF at work here.
That's one of the lessons to learn with a long lens: there's hardly any subject flat enough to fit the DOF of a long lens, even if it's stopped down. This can be a real challenge in the field for both the photographer and the camera's AF.
-- Markus
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Very nice image Wim; esp the one of the juvenile songthrush; the lighting really helps with emphasizing the details.
[quote name='mst' timestamp='1302377989' post='7518']
They do, but not because the lens is soft, it's just the very limited DOF at work here.
That's one of the lessons to learn with a long lens: there's hardly any subject flat enough to fit the DOF of a long lens, even if it's stopped down. This can be a real challenge in the field for both the photographer and the camera's AF.
-- Markus
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