Hi! Thanks for all those who responded, which however excludes some of the people who still managed to squeeze in some very strange arguments and wordings. Come, let us at least pretend we're all civilized enough.
Now, to the point of the thread. There're few things that were out of the scope but were still brought in. 1. I did not speak about digital cameras. I spoke only about film SLRs in fact. Furthermore, my experience is only with ME Super and ZX-L. 2. I did not mean to argue about 600/4 lens hunting down quite remote and no less fast animal that for some reason should be filling the whole frame once the film is processed and printed and/or scanned. 3. In fact I was talking about something like shooting my daughter with 35 or 50 mm lens under sunlight with aperture at f/5.6 or f/8 from distance of at least 2-3 meters. I suppose I should have said this explicitly to avoid confusion. >From what I hope I understood from all the (meaningful) responses, I think that I learned that: 1. No matter how but the focusing should be tack on. 2. Do not rely on DOF as you may be surprised to your disadvantage. Finally, I suppose I am right to assume that sharpness is not uniform across the DOF region. Again I mean neither defense nor offense although I suppose we could behave a little, how to put it, in a more balanced manner. Also I chose Paal's message to reply to simply as it was the topmost in the list of messages for this topic, and for no other reason. It's been a pleasure, so far... --- Boris Liberman www.geocities.com/dunno57
