Challenges: Depth of Field

● Creating high resolution images with large DOF is a challenge

● Large mosaics require long focal length lenses

● Long lenses produce images with shallow DOF (all else equal)

● Smaller apertures increase DOF, but also increase diffraction (blur).

● Trade-off between diffraction (blur) vs DOF puts a limit on the

degree of detail and DOF possible in large images.

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