For us wannabe True View photographers with limited photo equipment...

lsica

Found this online. Some good information for us wannabe True View photographers with limited photography equipment (meaning those of us who have point and shoot or superzoom cameras with smaller sensors).

Lens Diffraction and Photography

Interesting because I always believed that higher f-stop=more depth of field=sharper coin pics. But when you're dealing with cameras with smaller sensors, it seems not so much....

messydesk

Dirty little secret about some of the cheaper point and shoot cameras is that they no longer have actual variable apertures. Where you think you're setting stopping down the aperture from f4 to f8 in an attempt to get a little more depth of field without running into diffraction issues, all you're doing is telling the camera to use a neutral density filter that gives the equivalent exposure. The aperture in the lens stays wide open. This must be cheaper to manufacture, as it keeps a moving part out of the lens.