Extreme depth of field used to be the province of pinhole shooters and pricey view cameras, but now anyone with a manually-focusing camera, a tripod, a computer, and $30 can create images that are ...

Clearly the depth of field is always much greater than the depth of focus, because the image is (nearly) always a great deal smaller than the object. In a ray diagram of a simple imaging lens with a ...

Focusing also influences depth of field: the range of distance ... as shown in the diagram below. The lens motor will then move the optical components to provide correct focus. Contrast-based AF ...

Put simply, depth of field refers to how much depth in your image is in focus. If objects both close to and far away from he camera are sharp, then you have a deep depth of field. If the ...

What is depth of field? Understanding depth of field is one of the first big hurdles in photography. Knowing how your aperture, focal length and focusing work together to affect depth of field and ...

Sound good? Let's dive in. Shallow depth of field, sometimes called shallow focus, a technique used by filmmakers and ...

Just remember that f-numbers are opposite of what you’d expect: a low number means wide, and a higher means ... the image is in focus, in what is called a shallow depth of field.

Deep focus (or deep depth of field, as we would call it today) was dependent on innovations in technology. Faster filmstock and powerful carbon arc lamps enabled Toland to shoot between f8 and f16 ...

One of the most striking differences between your iPhone and a large camera like a DSLR is the way the two cameras focus and control depth of field. In a DSLR, depth of field is easy to manage by ...

Researchers have created and tested a light field camera with the greatest depth of field ever demonstrated, keeping everything between 3 cm and 1.7 km from the lens in focus NIST 2 / 7 ...

If you've drooled over food photography with shallow depth of field or portraits where the subject is in sharp focus but the background is blurred, you probably think they were shot with a digital ...