Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/07

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Subject: RE: Re: [Leica] how can the 75 Lux focus go bad?
From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:23:51 -0500

> > No it is not what I said.  I said, quite clearly, that the same 50mm
> lense
> > at 3' gives the same DOF on both 35mm and 4x5 film.
>
> If you make 10x8 prints from your two negatives will the apparent
> depth of field be the same?

It depends on whether you enlarge one of the images, since they will be
entirely different images...the image on the 35mm frame will appear much
larger than the one on the 4x5 frame.

If you only enlarge equal portions or each, the apparent DOF should be the
same.