Quote Originally Posted by neuroanatomist
Jon, forgive me, but I have to say that I don't find it 'silly' at all.

You're right- you were not being silly. Sorry about that.


Quote Originally Posted by neuroanatomist
A reasonable approach with a standard macro lens is to simply shoot at 1:1 (or whatever mag is desired) - at least, reasonable to me, and I often shoot in just that manner - manually set focus at the MFD, then move camera+lens closer to the subject until a pleasing focal plane is acheived, and shoot.

I see your point. If this is your approach, the FF will give more DOF.


What I don't understand, though, is if you want a wider framed image with more DOF and less diffraction (like you would have with the FF camera), can you not achieve the same thing with the crop camera?


Those are four very nice pics, by the way. Is the first one a watermelon?