Thanks STL, I think I'm getting a handle on the focusing distance questions I had.


I'd like to ask you about this idea. You wrote:


"you will need to crop the picture somewhat if you wish to do so, losing resolution in the process."


I've seen this phrase a number of times, and it always seems to imply the image is degraded somehow.


I always think of resolution as a camera system's ability to capture detail, but you're not referring to that here, are you? You mean "lose resolution" in the sense that you're throwing away pixels, right?


The lp/mm - the level of detail that was captured - stays the same. There's no loss in the image's quality, only in the quantity of pixels. Is that true?


Thanks again for sharing your knowledge - it is much appreciated!