Saturday, July 12, 2008

Site: Serious Compacts

As you know, I have written about my desire for high quality compact cameras. To my delight, somebody has made a site devoted to them.

I found there this comparison of depth-of-field of two cameras, one of which has a sensor which is half the size of the other, linearly (and therefore half the focal length in corresponding lenses). This shows clearly how huge an impact format has on depth-of-field.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very interesting - and great reading. The longer focal length lens indeed can render shallower DOF than the 'wider' angle lands on the other camera. All this also has a lot to do with diameter of the lens (glass) itself as well as the front element in the group. Thanks - interesting indeed.