Canon 40D and 5D vs. Nikon D40 and D300

"Steve" <steve@example.com> wrote:
>
> You don't need a f/1.8 to blur the background of close ups that focus
> on a person. There's plenty of lenses that will autofocus on a D40
> that let you do that with f/2.8 or f/3.5, which will easily blur the
> background of close up portraits. In fact, a f/1.8 is probably too
> much aperature and will not give you enough DOF to keep even an entire
> close up face in focus. For a close up, the eyes might be in focus
> but the nose and ears won't be.

http://www.wlcastleman.com/equip/rev...port/bokeh.htm

http://www.wlcastleman.com/equip/reviews/d80/index.htm

--
David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan

On 2008-07-21, Dave Cohen <user@example.net> wrote:
> Chris Malcolm wrote:
>> Steve <steve@example.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess some people who are used to those little icons on the dial
>>> miss them with an upper end DSLR.
>>
>> There's also those ambitious folk who buy a DSLR and shoot in manual
>> mode because they've been told that's how you get the best results,
>> but unfortunately all their exposures are way off. Rather like those
>> folk who get a manual gear shift car for the first time and complain
>> after having driven hundreds of miles in second gear.
>>
>
> And when did you actually come across anybody that did that.

Which 'that' are you asking about?

I know a couple of people who use their DSLRs exclusively in manual
without any real understanding of exposure. I've come across many more
online, there's probably a flickr group just for people of that
persuasion. They tend to also be part of the gang who think 'bokeh' is a
photographic style and shoot everything out-of-focus.

One of the people from that group is also one of the many people I know
who are pathologically averse to upward gear shifts, spending most of
their road time in third gear. I'm sure if the rev limiter didn't get in
the way at least one of them would drive everywhere in second.

I once inherited a ten-year-old car from my brother, who is one of the
latter group. Of the four gears in the box, first, second and fourth were
fine, third sounded like a rather large turbo had kicked in but was
always dropped in very smoothly.

--
savvo orig. invib. man

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:45:23 +0900, "David J. Littleboy"
<davidjl@gol.com> wrote:

>
>"Steve" <steve@example.com> wrote:
>>
>> You don't need a f/1.8 to blur the background of close ups that focus
>> on a person. There's plenty of lenses that will autofocus on a D40
>> that let you do that with f/2.8 or f/3.5, which will easily blur the
>> background of close up portraits. In fact, a f/1.8 is probably too
>> much aperature and will not give you enough DOF to keep even an entire
>> close up face in focus. For a close up, the eyes might be in focus
>> but the nose and ears won't be.
>
>http://www.wlcastleman.com/equip/rev...port/bokeh.htm
>
>http://www.wlcastleman.com/equip/reviews/d80/index.htm

Thank you. They show that you can get very nice background blur with
the right lens at f/2.8 and even f/4.

Steve