Re: [OM] OM macro / closeups vs medium format / TLR

[Tom]

On Friday, December 28, 2001 at 13:20, Brian Swale 
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "[OM] OM macro / closeups vs medium " saying:
...
> An old friend of mine who used Hasselblad used to laugh at me trying to
> maximise DOF, and said "Why don't you get a Hassy, stand back with a normal
> lens, get all the DOF you want, and enlarge the part you really wanted to
> photograph in the first place.".

She/He's fooling himself. You get the same depth of field with a given 
focal length, aperture, and image enlargement..

tOM
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