Whether you are going on a casual vacation and want to capture some images of your trip or a full-fledged photo safari where you are hoping to capture the “images of a lifetime� there is hardly anything more distressing than looking at your images and finding them blurry. The camera normally gets the blame, but with a simple exercise before you go you can prevent this disaster… DOF Test Setup

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Great article, David.

Along the same lines, I ran across Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog a while back. He says basically the same thing, but he has this nifty chart you can print if you want get really tight about it. More for the indoor/tripod setup.

And I had thought my bad shots were ME!

http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/focus-chart

Thx for the lead on the focus chart. There is one you can buy for a bunch of money also, but I like the idea of printing one off better:-)--David