Comments on: Reader Question – Bokeh

By: elizabethhalford

elizabethhalford — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:50:00 +0000

@Adam: Good ?. You can set your camera to AV (aperture value) mode, zoom in your lens and set it to the widest aperture. The camera will decide the rest of the settings. The more zoom in the lens, the less the aperture will be suitable to produce bokeh unless it’s one of those super expensive ones which can be wide open at max zoom.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:30:06 +0000

Zooming in is good, wide aperture is good. What if it is a variable aperture lens (my 18-55mm kit lens is)?
Zooming in restricts the aperture.
I’m going to go ahead and guess that it doesn’t really matter in the end. A quick experiment should answer it.

By: Simona

Simona — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:42:13 +0000

Thanks for again for the information and pointers.
My weekend project: dust off my T1 and give bokeh a try

As Always, a pleasure reading your posts

P.S. where do you find the time? :)

By: elizabethhalford

elizabethhalford — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:39:25 +0000

Aww thanks! Yes, English is my first language :)

By: Emmy

Emmy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:36:26 +0000

Great advice and I love how your break things down into english :)