One of the reasons to move up to a DSLR or digital mirrorless camera is the ability to take more control over your photos. Here's how aperture works.

Depth of field is a function of a lens' focal length and aperture settings and of the distance of the subject from the lens, Westfall explains. That's old hat to those familiar with photography.

In photography, depth of field refers to how much of a three-dimensional space the camera can focus on at once. A shallow depth of field, for example, would keep the subject sharp but blur out ...

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Depth of field has always been a preoccupation for photographers. Or it used to be. These days we seem to be fixed on the shallowest depth of field possible in pursuit of that great god of bokeh ...

Without an aperture dial, you get little control over your depth of field. And thanks to the laws of physics, the tiny sensor results in a large depth of field in most of your photos.

A high depth of field — the distance between the nearest and farthest points that a camera can bring into focus — is important for the relatively new technique of light-field photography ...

One of the reasons to move up to a DSLR or digital mirrorless camera is the ability to take more control over your photos. Here's how aperture works.

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