http://www.photolarry.com/blog/2008/09/12/point-and-shoot-cameras/ Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.photolarry.com/blog/2008/09/12/point-and-shoot-cameras/comment-page-1/#comment-1784 Bodhi Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:30:47 +0000 http://www.photolarry.com/blog/?p=1984#comment-1784 Thanks photolarry :) It was a helpful quick read. I am a scientist by trade (we're friends on brightkite) and have a passing interest in photography. The optics and relationships all make plenty of sense to me. I've just never really gotten around to looking at what the photo jargon means and correlating that with the optics equations. But I have noticed the phenomenon you're explaining - the impossibility of getting shallow DOF without using macro mode on an object close to the lense with a faraway background - in a point-and-shoot. Cheers! Thanks photolarry It was a helpful quick read. I am a scientist by trade (we’re friends on brightkite) and have a passing interest in photography. The optics and relationships all make plenty of sense to me. I’ve just never really gotten around to looking at what the photo jargon means and correlating that with the optics equations. But I have noticed the phenomenon you’re explaining – the impossibility of getting shallow DOF without using macro mode on an object close to the lense with a faraway background – in a point-and-shoot. Cheers!

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