"Paul Furman" <paul-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Troy Piggins wrote:
>>
>> Hadn't thought about the hyperfocal DOF - I understand the theory
>> but at my skill level it's probably the last thing that occurs to
>> me.
>
> It doesn't occur to me much either but us critics have the advantage of
> hindsight :-) Maybe I'll remember next time too.
>
>> I still have to think about lighting, composition,
>> whitebalance, aperture etc - I surprised myself to use the trees
>> for framing ;) Good advice though. I'll file it away for next
>> time a similar op****tunity arises.
>>
>> Thanks Paul!
Depending on your camera, hyperfocal is one of those things that can be
difficult for auto-everything cameras to accomplish. My A720 seems to
default to a hyperfocal type focus strategy, only deviating from it when
the
subject is really close. Of course, with its smaller sensor, almost
evrything is almost always in focus...
The Rebel XT is a bit different. It has a nice setting where the camera
trys to figure out what is most likely to be the subject, or subjects, and
then trys to keep it all in focus, ****fting the background out of focus if
necessary / possible (the ADepth setting). But, using aperture priority
or
shutter priority, hyperfocusing seems to be a bit of a challenge when
there
is something close up front you'd rather not ****ft into a blur.
For those of us who still yearn for "the good ole days" once and a while,
hyperfocusing was really easy to do with most manual focus cameras. A
good
****tion of my shots were taken using that strategy...
How about those Nikons? Is there a hyperfocus setting?
Take Care,
Dudley
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