OMG...tell me thiis guy is wrong about micro four thirds

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Re: Isnt there something wrong here?
In reply to danijel973, 6 months ago

danijel973 wrote:

Of course the DoF is shallow when the crop is tighter. There's one more thing about all those "equivalence" stories. DoF is *equal* for 35mm and 4/3 lenses if you frame 2x tighter. That's what they keep avoiding in all those "f/2.8 is really f/5.6" stories.

People just get hung up on the idea of the same framing (same field of view, same photograph).

35mm just allows you to have a looser framing and keep the same DoF, which is why 35mm is much, much better for full body portraiture.

You change between different format camera bodies in order to change the framing of subjects (while keeping Focal Length, F-Number, and Camera to Subject Distance constant) ???

But for head&shoulders portraiture there really is no great difference.

But that would be roughly the same framing (would it not?), thus changing the DOF ...

I calculate that the difference in the background blur-disk diameter (relative to the image-frame dimensions) is proportional to the ratio of the physical dimensions of the image-sensors used.

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