Commons talk:Featured picture candidates/Image:Apinae Bombus pascuorum.jpg

• Iam a little bit tired about the neverending DoF discussion on tiny objects, maybe i can change your mind :) I really would like to have a larger DoF, but technically its not possible with my lens (which reaches its maximum at a aperature of 16) plus my prefered one shot technique (i shoot it by hand, moreless). A workaround would be to make multiple shots and fokusing 3-4 areas and merge them, but this works only with a tripod and you must pray to god that the object is not moving, which is nearly impossible with insects especially with smal ones. The apperature which simulates the eye is aprox f5,6 ... with macro lenses its shiftet a little bit to 8 or 10. Lets do a test: Take a Q-Tip or a match and hold it in a 45 degee angel in front of a structural background, try to focus the match and you will see what DoF means in macro photography and the resulting problem. As bigger the insects or as more you enlarge the distance from the lens to the object, the DoF getting more relative. The best usual macrolenses you can buy has a magnification of 1:1, this picture with a 10mm insect as a example has a magnification of 2,5:1 and the close up version with a magnification of 4:1 where you can see that iam working on the technical edge. --Makro Freak 15:04, 11 June 2007 (UTC)