Tina writes: Herschel wrote: > 6x7 (Film) is excellent for modern food photography because of the > shallow depth of field due to the larger format . You just can't get > those shots with the medium format digital backs and certainly not > with "35mm" DSLRs | But you can get them with a digital rangefinder - Leica M9 - and Leica | lenses wide open. I had a Canon f0.95 lens on one of my 35mm cameras, and even with that shallow a DoF there was no comparison - the larger formats beat the stuffing out of it for shallow DoF and out of focus backgrounds I'm with Herschel on this - a shallow DoF is a beauiful thing, and something which keeps steering me back to film. I have in 35mm, a 400:4.5 and a 135:2 to play with .. and no digital body to take advantage of these beauties and some nice MF and lenses (pining for the 135:f1.8 4x5 Seiko lens I once got to use) including a stuning Bausch & Lomb 500mm:5.6 tele (yes, TELE) 8x10 lens so film it is for some things ..just not professionally (no one is prepared to pay) k
