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And remember that renders are sharp all over. There's (under normal circumstances) no depth in a render. We don't always think about it because we're used to renders looking like that. But in order to attain PHOTOrealism you will need some depth of field.

Perhaps. This is one of those areas where vision and photos seems different. At least for me - things don't blur at a distance, they just get small. When I look at images made with depth of field it always look alien to me. I'll have to go through my photos again, but I don't recall much depth of field in most of them. On the note over jagged edges - this is a reason to render with good anti-aliasing on. One of the things I like about Vue is it allows you to scale up or down how anti-aliased you want the render, and that does a lot to remove jagged edges. My 'genre' of interest is not realism per se - I like a lot of effects work - but I also almost never do post work and I've been fairly satisfied with what I can get out of a render. I would like to get more, but then it is always a struggle to improve. But it takes a lot of time, energy, and the proper eye to get renders good - much as it does with photography and a camera.

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