Quote Originally Posted by JCPhoto1
AJ you do have it backwards.
This double chiding sufficiently motivated me to pull out some of my photo technology textbooks and research this one some more. You guys are right about the focal length /DOF relationship. I even used the near focus distance and far focus distance calculator equations (that I have forgotten about for the last decade) to test my case. This is particularly embarrassing, since I have made my living taking pictures for the last 13 years.

Anyway, I wanted to point out that I do shoot a lot of products, and I really do prefer the results that shooting with a longer lens yield for products like chairs. The longer focal length allows me to back up farther from the subject, which does increase the depth of field, and shows the product with less distortion than a shorter lens.