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I wonder why such odd settings
I set my D90 to P mode and took a few shots of my garden, and noticed the camera picked F 6 and 1/500 second, at ISO 200, 125mm lens, sunny day. What's odd? Well F 6 is the maximum opening of that lens! You'd think with enough light to get 1/500 second, it would pick something with more DOF. The more I think of it, the more I realize I'm always setting the D90 to A mode... Maybe there's a setting I don't know about? Does Nikon love narrow DOF? I'm not worried, just curious. |
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I set my D90 to P mode and took a few shots of my garden, and noticed the camera picked F 6 and 1/500 second, at ISO 200, 125mm lens, sunny day. What's odd? Well F 6 is the maximum opening of that lens! You'd think with enough light to get 1/500 second, it would pick something with more DOF. It's not _that_ odd. The standard for eliminating motion blur is a shutter speed of 1/(focal length). With a 1.6x crop factor you've got a 200mm equivalent. Maybe Nikon just figures that motion blur is worse than shallow depth of field. -- Ray Fischer |
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|AX| I wonder why such odd settings
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I set my D90 to P mode and took a few shots of my garden, and noticed the camera picked F 6 and 1/500 second, at ISO 200, 125mm lens, sunny day. What's odd? Well F 6 is the maximum opening of that lens! You'd think with enough light to get 1/500 second, it would pick something with more DOF. I don't think cameras are that smart. The matrix metering is too smart for it's own good but never heard of a camera that could figure out what you describe. The more I think of it, the more I realize I'm always setting the D90 to A mode... Yep! Maybe there's a setting I don't know about? Does Nikon love narrow DOF? I'm not worried, just curious. -- Paul Furman www.edgehill.net www.baynatives.com all google groups messages filtered due to spam |
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On Sun, 17 May 2009 20:15:29 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On 2009-05-17 19:41:40 -0700, said: I set my D90 to P mode and took a few shots of my garden, and noticed the camera picked F 6 and 1/500 second, at ISO 200, 125mm lens, sunny day. What's odd? Well F 6 is the maximum opening of that lens! You'd think with enough light to get 1/500 second, it would pick something with more DOF. The more I think of it, the more I realize I'm always setting the D90 to A mode... Maybe there's a setting I don't know about? Does Nikon love narrow DOF? I'm not worried, just curious. P Mode is not Auto. It is "Programmed" Automatic. Simplisticly selecting "P" mode the camera will automatically select shutter speed and aperture (& ISO if you have Auto ISO enabled), but if you adjust with the command or sub-command dials, it will make the balanced adjustment for selected effects. So if you adjust to open up the aperture the shutter speed will be balanced. This is sort of like combining Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority into a ganged control. Then is you turn off Auto ISO you can add another element. As far as the camera picking something with greater DOF, when you first select P Mode it is going to go to a middle of the road average setting. That was my point - the camera did NOT pick a middle of the road setting, it went to the end. You can adjust this balance with the command dials. You want greater DOF stop it down and the speed will adjust. Personally for most shooting I use A Mode. |
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On Mon, 18 May 2009 10:11:28 -0400, Alan Browne
wrote: wrote: I set my D90 to P mode and took a few shots of my garden, and noticed the camera picked F 6 and 1/500 second, at ISO 200, 125mm lens, sunny day. What's odd? Well F 6 is the maximum opening of that lens! You'd think with enough light to get 1/500 second, it would pick something with more DOF. The more I think of it, the more I realize I'm always setting the D90 to A mode... Maybe there's a setting I don't know about? Does Nikon love narrow DOF? I'm not worried, just curious. Just program shift to a smaller aperture and higher speed. Did you ever read the manual? Better, abandon P mode and use A: you decide initially what your DOF should be. I know how cameras work, (I had my first 35mm in 1966)... I wasn't asking... I was just wondering why the camera would pick the end of the F stop range rather than a more 'average' type of setting. Do you think the camera simply starts at one end of the range and waits for you to adjust? |
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wrote: I know how cameras work, (I had my first 35mm in 1966)... I wasn't asking... I was just wondering why the camera would pick the end of the F stop range rather than a more 'average' type of setting. because that's probably going to produce a better photo for most situations. it's an automatic mode, after all. if you think you can do better, you can adjust what it picks with the wheel, or pick aperture or shutter preferred mode instead. or, pick an appropriate scene mode, such as landscape which should maximize depth of field. |
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