It minimizing DOF is perhaps more important as it can smooth out even somewhat busy backgrounds.
Paul via phone > On Oct 9, 2017, at 8:01 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ken Waller wrote: >> If you had the room and the lens, a longer focal length would give you a >> less in focus background? I use a 300 a lot in close focus situations and >> get a really nice OOF background. It's a 300mm f4.5 FA and it close focuses >> to around under 10 feet! >> > > I find that the major advantage of the longer lens is that there is a > narrower field of view of the background, making it easy to avoid background > ugliness. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
