On Thu, October 22, 2009 22:45, karl shah-jenner wrote: > 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 Seems like rather long focal lengths for food specifically. For the food situation, what about T/S lenses used perversely (i.e. to reduce rather than increase apparent DOF)? -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
