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Ok ladies, stop the snickering. No really… This is serious. Size does matter. The size of your sensor, that is.  Yes, the size of the sensor (the actual “chip” in a digital camera that takes the picture) matters for a lot of things.  What I want to talk about today is how your sensor size affects the depth-of-field you are able to get. This
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Hey  y’all – just wanted to quickly  share a post I came across today on the NYTimes Gadgetwise blog (worth subscribing to, BTW, for us Geek Girls).  We visited this subject in October -  why a camera with fewer megapixels can take a better photo than a camera with more megapixels – and it’s all about sensor size. Rik Fairlie’s Gadgetwise post includes a
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