Mike J's DOF Response

The following is Mike Johnston's response tomy rebuttaltohis original article.on the subject of the future of DSLRs.These are, obviously, best read in order.
Of course I second what Michael R. says about the possibility of being wrong. In fact I'd go so far as to say it's likely. Predicting probable futures is a pretty inexact science, as any stock trader can attest.
I have to smile, though, about the contention that too much DOF is a bad thing. Eight years ago I published (inPhoto Techniquesmagazine) a trio of articles about "bokeh" that kinda got that topic rolling (Carl Weese was the one who originally clued me in to it), and I love the the aesthetic effect of out-of-focus areas in a picture. But it's just a property. All properties in pictures are not requirements, not fulfillments of any static need, but simply accidents of technology. One could even argue that black-and-white is just a property, a result of photography's early difficulties with recording color!
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