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Ah!  I see what you mean.  And I do recognize this photo (it won't...

It's a matter of personal taste, of course, but I would say "not always": Shallow DOF macro Shallow DOF in low light. Of course, different people have different tastes.  For example, some hate HDR...

Well, since DOF, deep, shallow, or anywhere in between, worked for that pic, why not go shallow and get less noise as you did? For sure. I'm embarrassed to say that I really don't know any...

Well, you can frame pretty tight with FF WA/UWA as well (photos are not cropped): 24mm f/1.4 (12mm f/0.7 on mFT)  24mm f/1.4 (12mm f/0.7 on mFT)  Rovingtim in 1022 posted some really cool UWA...

Indeed, and with a signficantly smaller kit, to boot. Actually, I'd call 20mm a "normal" focal length on mFT, not WA. Indeed!   I think the DOF works splendidly for #7, but is neither here nor...

If noise were never an issue, how many would choose FF over a smaller format?  I think very few.  Then again, if size were never an issue, how many would choose mFT over FF? What I'm trying to say...

Thanks for posting!  Well, let's change the subject to something else, as it appears someone is forcing you to read my posts.  Here's an idea -- post a photo, and we can discuss it's artistic...

DOH!  OK, "honorary white woman", then.  And what an honor it is, eh?  :-D

In my opinion, shallow DOF is more often abused than used to good purpose.  It's as if people shoot ultra shallow DOFs simply because they can, not because it makes the photo "better". Myself, I...

Thanks for the kind words! In both cases, no, backing up and using a longer focal length would not have been possible.  But, since you mention it, the same applies for this photo taken with a much...

By "good", of course, I mean, "good to go".  Seems like there would be a whole host of "filmmakers" that would love to do a series of "Deadly Jailbait" flicks, don't you think?  No reason to just...

Except there doesn't seem to be any issues shaking the sensor to get the dust off, does there?  There don't seem to be any issues moving the glass elements in the lens which are much more massive...

What's "enough" is, of course, entirely subjective.  However, the shallow DOF "advantage" of FF isn't in getting a single eyelash in focus for a tightly framed portrait.  Instead, the advantage is...

...that she would just through that away rather than use it as a soup base.  What a waste.  :-D

It's what you do with what God gives you that matters, especially when we take into consideration all those that are suffering and dying while you enjoy your good fortune.  If God would go so far...

Don't ++++ with Santa! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBpxbF1lqmI :-D

...it's possible that it did.  That is, it may be that the physical laws for this particular universe are such that life (as we know it) was inevitable. The Holy Grail of cosmology would be to find...

...that you use to justify not wearing a condom?  :-D

So long as QE is not adversely affected, and the read noise / pixel scales down by a least a factor proportional to the pixel diagonal, then more pixels, in terms of the IQ of the resulting photo,...

I highly recommend Photoline 32, but for editing, not RAW conversion.