Timeline for Were the snowflake photos said to be taken with a compact camera + reversed SLR lens really taken that way?
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| Nov 22, 2013 at 8:03 | comment | added | Michael C | The FoV is indeed smaller and assuming the optics and distances are the same the DoF is the same. The advantage of the compact is that the narrower FoV crops out most of the vignetting seen on the edges of the shot taken with a larger sensor. Also, the higher pixel density on most compacts (You're crammming anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2 to almost as many pixels into about 1/15th the space) gives greater resolution to the portion that you're going to keep: the center that has the subject in it. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 18:14 | comment | added | Marco Mp | Sorry, I read one instead of the other. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 15:19 | comment | added | Caleb | @MarcoMp Don't confuse field of view (FoV) with depth of field (DoF). The FoV is indeed narrower because the sensor only sees the middle portion of the image. I'm not sure whether the depth of field is really affected -- the optics are the same, so I'd think the depth of field should be the same also. Changing the sensor doesn't change the space in which the lenses create a sharp image. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 14:06 | comment | added | Marco Mp | Actually the FoV is larger not narrower, because of the reduced sensor.. so actually, with a compact it's easier to get in focus macro shots. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 9:03 | comment | added | Michael C | It makes no difference, except the FoV is much narrower since the sensor is much smaller. Any lens is a lens, regardless of what type of camera it is attached to. Almost all modern photographic lenses are complex lens systems consisting of multiple elements comprising multiple groups. Placing one complex lens in front of the other just combines the properties of each separate compound lens system into a third compound lens system. The optics are the same, regardless of how they are attached to a camera. | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 7:57 | comment | added | BBking | What about with a compact camera? | |
| Nov 21, 2013 at 5:39 | history | answered | Caleb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |