HT1854 - The Terrible, Awful, Horrible Non-Problem of Diffraction
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HT1854 - The Terrible, Awful, Horrible Non-Problem of Diffraction
With some regularity, we are advised by the wise leaders in photography to avoid using the smallest apertures because of the introduction of that focus softening known as diffraction. My advice is to ignore their advice. Not that diffraction doesn't exist; it does. It's just not as serious an issue as the pundits insist that it is.
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