Depth of field has always been a preoccupation for photographers. Or it used to be. These days we seem to be fixed on the shallowest depth of field possible in pursuit of that great god of bokeh, but ...

Put simply, depth of field refers to how much depth in your image is in focus. If objects both close to and far away from he camera are sharp, then you have a deep depth of field. If the foreground or ...

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Replay: You can't go far without understanding the relationship between sensors, lenses and depth of field, only it's slightly more complicated than you might have thought!. Phil Rhodes makes it ...

The development of HD video cameras has led to a move toward electronic cinematography. The 24p scanning format contributes to the film look, but one of the classic characteristics when shooting 35mm ...

Perhaps the best known maxim about depth of field is that larger sensors give you less of it, and in general this is true, though there are actually many exceptions. For the sake of this discussion, ...

A new trilobite-like camera lens has been developed, and it offers a feature that is not yet integrated into the mainstream camera devices, such as DSLRs and video cams developed by Sony, Nikon, and ...

In photography, depth of field refers to how much of a three-dimensional space the camera can focus on at once. A shallow depth of field, for example, would keep the subject sharp but blur out much of ...

Working on a machine vision project requires understanding each part of the system, including light sources, frame grabbers, and computers. Here is a primer on two essential machine-vision terms.