Quote - Hmm... But then there would be another issue.  When I'm animating, say moving from far shot to close shot, it would be hard to adjust a setting depending on the distance. Is this really the only way to address it?

People animate with Poser?  ;-)

I don't know, really. You might just have to deal with setting it very low and leaving it there. It adds render time, but it doesn't seem to be too drastic of a difference. Of course that depends on the complexity of your scene.
There might be some other way, but I don't know what that might be short of using texture maps that don't have that issue.

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