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RE: [Digital BW] www.OpenRAW.org needs your help or is it the other way around

2005-04-27 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: scott_now_coming
>
> DOF will remain the same whether used on FF or a "cropped" sensor.
>
> DOF is the result of lens design, focal length, yadda......, not
> sensor size.
>
> The smaller sensor is just "cropping" the image.

Not true. If you crop the image, either as a result of a smaller sensor or
post processing, you inevitably wind up magnifying what's left, which also
magnifies the blurriness, and therefore reduces the apparent DOF. The DOF
only remains unchanged if you print a proportionally smaller image.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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