Comments | jerronimo: Focus with a short depth of field

jerronimo

Focus with a short depth of field

Nov 02, 2013 21:59

Today, at BarCamp Rochester I was taking a lot of pictures using the Nikon D70 with the 35mm f/1.8 lens. (fast, with a small depth of field.) When shooting with this lens, I leave the aperture at f/1.8, because if I wanted to lose that look, I'd just take pictures with my iPhone. (35mm * 1.52 = 53.2mm effective field of view ( Read more... )

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mhaithaca November 3 2013, 23:32:07 UTC

Isn't that an awesome lens!? I really miss mine, and need to get another one eventually. Just hard to justify the $200 right now.

So that's what that AE-L button is for. :-) I've never really explored those settings, but I've gotten pretty good at many of the other manual features of my D90.

jerronimo November 4 2013, 01:50:16 UTC

in the menus, there's a selection of things that that button can do. i have mine set on AE lock or whatever. :)