Canon 5D v 7D
Canon 5D v 7D
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- hans_glib0
omg, wtf, ffs, etc
it's the lens that makes the difference not the camera...
a wide angle lens has a greater depth of field than a telephoto lens.
so naturally if you use a wider angle lens on the 7D to get the same crop, more of the image will be in focus than the 70mm on the 5D. But that's the lens, not the camera creating this. As you say yourself, the DOF of the 70mm lens is the same when mounted on the 7D or the 5D, but the FOV is reduced on the 7D.
So it's ridiculous to say that the 7D has greater DOF. It has a smaller sensor, so requires wider lenses to achieve the same field of view, and it's these wider lenses that give a greater DOF. The camera itself is just a sensor plane.