Re:I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it
by wao0uuno on Monday April 20, 2026 @12:22PM
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Yeah I guess you're right but there are limits on how shallow your DOF can get on smaller sensors. So when it comes to practical irl results you kinda need a larger sensor to get extremely shallow DOF.
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Re:I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it
by foldr on Monday April 20, 2026 @12:29PM
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> there are limits on how shallow your DOF can get on smaller sensors.
Only in the sense that you generally use a smaller sensor because you want your camera to be small.
If you take a full frame SLR and attach a 100mm f1.8 lens to it, you’ll get a shallow depth of field. Now crop that image down to an area of the sensor corresponding to the size of a phone sensor, and the cropped image will have the exact same depth of field.