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About that Bokeh (Another FF/m43 comparison)

Started Sep 15, 2015 | Discussions thread
dulynoted
dulynoted Senior Member • Posts: 2,267
Re: But why would anyone do that???
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Sports Dad wrote:

Bhima78 wrote:

I'm not sure I quite understand the point. The first photo tells the whole story, as it shows the real difference in DoF when shot near the same framing.

But why would anyone restrict themselves like that? No one would every think, "gosh darn it the Nikon 70-200mm lens maxes out at 200mm, so I must only shoot at 200mm EFL on my Olympus 40-150mm lens!". But I have read about people using longer focal lengths in order to get a shallower DoF and limit what is in the background of a portrait.

These are different formats and forcing oneself to use a framing from a different camera and lens is rather insane.

Yes but photographers are the same regardless of the camera they use. If you felt like shooting at 200mm on full frame why would you shoot the picture differently on m43? and one cant always back up and use a longer focal length for the same framing. Compression may even begin to reduce the impact of the image. Focal lengths arent usually chosen arbitrarily for dof. If you want to shoot 150 on m43 you would probably grab a 300 on ff. It is pointless to compare images at differ fields of view.

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