D.O.F. Question
Apr 29, 2019 16:33:37 #
Sooo, D 5600 ??
Hmmm.
Have been thinking about one of them myself.
Why did you make the move to it ??
Hmmm.
Have been thinking about one of them myself.
Why did you make the move to it ??
Apr 29, 2019 16:51:16 #
IDguy
Loc: Idaho
Lars Bogart wrote:
Sooo, D 5600 ??
Hmmm.
Have been thinking about one of them myself.
Why did you make the move to it ??
Hmmm.
Have been thinking about one of them myself.
Why did you make the move to it ??
My wife and I both had D5300s. She passed away so I wanted to sell hers. So I just decided to sell mine too and get the D5600. No particular feature. Takes the same images. Turns out I really like the touch screen.
I hope you use the info screen to control your D5300. Many users don’t get that and whine about having to use menus. The touch screen makes the info screen control even more elegant.
Plus you can adjust ISO with a swipe on the screen while taking images. So it frees up the function button...which I reassigned.
Apr 30, 2019 05:56:54 #
I'd have used a D.O.F. app on the phone - or the D.O.F. button on the side of the camera to see if I was getting what I wanted.
Apr 30, 2019 08:46:38 #
Apr 30, 2019 09:09:55 #
Apr 30, 2019 13:35:37 #
FYI,,,,,when you are answering someone you should click the "quote reply" button so that we know to whom you are answering.
Apr 30, 2019 17:12:38 #
foathog wrote:
FYI,,,,,when you are answering someone you should click the "quote reply" button so that we know to whom you are answering.
O.K.
Will Do ..
Apr 30, 2019 17:18:47 #
Apr 30, 2019 17:46:43 #
Lars,
You just should have read the very first reply by gilpog and shut the computer off. F16 would have done the job. If that woman in the photograph is your significant other then don't even think about hyperfocal distance. If it's your grandmother and you were a math minor in college, go for it. The bottom line is your using an entry level camera in program mode. The last thing you need is to be sitting in front of a computer figuring out HFD!! Just go out and take pictures and have fun.
Marty
You just should have read the very first reply by gilpog and shut the computer off. F16 would have done the job. If that woman in the photograph is your significant other then don't even think about hyperfocal distance. If it's your grandmother and you were a math minor in college, go for it. The bottom line is your using an entry level camera in program mode. The last thing you need is to be sitting in front of a computer figuring out HFD!! Just go out and take pictures and have fun.
Marty
Apr 30, 2019 18:04:41 #
Lars Bogart wrote:
Look at my photo.
wanted to take photo of person and at same time keep bridge in background IN FOCUS.
Using Nikon D 5300 W/ Sigma 18:250 Lens.
Camera setting was ..
Metering : Matrix
F 7.1
Exp. Mode : P
AF : Area AF
Auto bracketing : OFF
Focal length to subject : 44mm
How Would YOU have taken this photo to achieve the results I was trying to get ???
thank you for your answers
Lars
wanted to take photo of person and at same time keep bridge in background IN FOCUS.
Using Nikon D 5300 W/ Sigma 18:250 Lens.
Camera setting was ..
Metering : Matrix
F 7.1
Exp. Mode : P
AF : Area AF
Auto bracketing : OFF
Focal length to subject : 44mm
How Would YOU have taken this photo to achieve the results I was trying to get ???
thank you for your answers
Lars
I would have whipped out my iPhone and started the Depth of Field Calc app, plugged in all the variables, and solved for f/stop.
Apr 30, 2019 19:00:59 #
Have you head of and/or tried focus at the hyperfocal distance? In that technique you place the focus so that the zone of acceptably sharp focus extends to infinity but just barely. In that way you keep the near end of acceptably sharp near focus as close to the camera as possible. (Hopefully the lady would be in the included zone of shape focus) The hyperfocal distance for any scene varies with aperture of the lens, and Focal length and the range of acceptable sharpness becomes greater with smaller aperture (bigger f numbers) and with smaller focal length numbers.
Apr 30, 2019 19:40:54 #
streetmarty wrote:
Lars, br br You just should have read the very fi... (show quote)
D 5300 entry level ??
well O.K.
What would be my next level up camera for me ??
My B-Day coming up & need idea's.
Lars.
Apr 30, 2019 20:09:49 #
Lars Bogart wrote:
D 5300 entry level ??
well O.K.
What would be my next level up camera for me ??
My B-Day coming up & need idea's.
Lars.
well O.K.
What would be my next level up camera for me ??
My B-Day coming up & need idea's.
Lars.
Lars,
Hi again, not that you can't get extraordinary photographs with what you have but if you wanted to go to the next level it would be the D5500 since Nikon discontinued the D5400. It would be about $200 more than what you paid for the D5300. But a real good move for you would be the D7200. You can find them on e-bay manufacturer refurbished or open box for about $600, or new for about $850.
Marty
Apr 30, 2019 22:31:46 #
photoman022
Loc: Manchester CT USA
Lars Bogart wrote:
P.S. …
What program can I Buy where / when I View a photo it tells me all the original settings were for that photo ??
P.S. …
What program can I Buy where / when I View a photo it tells me all the original settings were for that photo ??
If you're using a PC, you don't have to buy a program at all. Right click the photo; click on "properties" (at the bottom of the list); click on "details"; then scroll down the screen. It will tell you more information than you really need (or want) to know!
May 1, 2019 08:46:05 #
streetmarty wrote:
Lars,
Hi again, not that you can't get extraordinary photographs with what you have but if you wanted to go to the next level it would be the D5500 since Nikon discontinued the D5400. It would be about $200 more than what you paid for the D5300. But a real good move for you would be the D7200. You can find them on e-bay manufacturer refurbished or open box for about $600, or new for about $850.
Marty
Hi again, not that you can't get extraordinary photographs with what you have but if you wanted to go to the next level it would be the D5500 since Nikon discontinued the D5400. It would be about $200 more than what you paid for the D5300. But a real good move for you would be the D7200. You can find them on e-bay manufacturer refurbished or open box for about $600, or new for about $850.
Marty
I have now looked at them.
Guess I now know what my B - day present going to be, thanks.
Take a look at some of my photo's of area I Live round.
Camano Island, Wa.
Not a bad place for picture taking.
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