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In lugnet.publish.photography, David Laswell writes:
> In lugnet.publish.photography, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> > Also, in order to get a greater depth of field, you should reduce the
> > aperture (increase the f-stop) if you can...By taking macro photos
> > with an f-stop between 6 and 11, I have managed to get the entire model
> > in focus, even when shooting from very close.
>
> Okay, now you're getting way beyond what most people will ever have the
> capability of doing. Even good general use digital cameras don't typically
> get that complicated. That's largely left to cameras designed for real
> photobugs, and rightly so.
I think that's changing. I've seen explicit aperture settings on $400
consumer-grade digital cameras.
> The average consumer just wants to be able to
> shoot family snapshots and general scenic shots during holidays and
> vacations, and they don't need many bells and whistles to do that.
Every digital camera has the capability to do multiple apertures -- the trick
is coaxing the camera into doing what you want if there isn't a way to set the
aperture manually. There's always a way... :-)
If you don't have a manual aperture setting, you can still get a medium
aperture like f/5.6 or f/11 (well, probably not f/11 on a cheap camera,
but certainly f/5.6 on any point & shoot, anyway) by simply putting the
camera in to "auto" mode and throwing lots of light on the subject. The
more light there is, the smaller the aperture the camera will choose. And
if you're lucky, your camera might just even write the aperture to in the
EXIF block of the JPEG file. :-)
--Todd
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