the 45mm doesn't provide shallow enough DoF... [image + shooting notes]

rkeller wrote:

Jim: try this out. I think it is about a 66% crop or so.

You can see that the zone of focus starts to get slightly blurry back at the ears and at the top of the shoulder. There seems to be plenty of sharpness at the eyes. [Note after posting: the full-zoom DPreview-rendered version is slightly less critically sharp and contrasty than the Lightroom-exported JPEG on my computer. Oh well.]



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