----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Wood" <bwood@xxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:24 AM Subject: Re: Gravestone photography : : : Your best bet might be to rent a camera with a full sized sensor. Most : digitals have a smaller than normal sensor which really increases your : depth of field. this is because smaller sensors use shorter focal lengths (with deeper depth of field) to achieve the same angle of view as larger formats with longer focal lengths. :Another choice would be to shoot film & get the images : scanned. A lot more cost & work, but you'd definitely get a shorter DOF : than you using your digital with a small sensor. Good luck. ..or take it one step further and go for a larger format again on film - 66 or even 4x5 for an even shallower DOF :-) k
