One of the greatest benefits in moving from a compact digital point-and-shoot camera to a DSLR is the increase in flexibility you have over depth of field. Depth of field, or DOF, is a measure of how much of a scene is in focus in an image. Sometimes, you want as much of the scene to be in focus as possible, but there are many times when you want to direct the viewer’s attention to the subject, and leave the background as a nice, non-distracting blur. DSLRs give you far more ability to control DOF than a compact point-and-shoot.

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