I have a D40 and the 50mm 1.8 - i have the camera in aperture priority - f8. now i would like to set the focus ring to hyperfocal distance for the f8 and then use the camera as point and shoot for ...

Conventional wisdom has it that you should keep the background in your photos out of focus to draw attention to the subject in the foreground. Generally that’s good advice, but sometimes you might ...

Although autofocusing cameras seem to be everywhere these days, they`re not the only game in town. Recently, for example, I needed a lightweight, portable, 120-roll-film camera that could hang at my ...

Getting your landscapes sharp from front to back is tricky, but exploiting a phenomenon of depth of field can help you get a tack-sharp scene every time. Depth of field is the distance either side of ...

Hyperfocal. The word sounds so…intense. Maybe it is. By taking your lens and aperture into account while focusing at just the right spot, you can milk every bit of ...

Everyone reading this probably takes a decent photo. Smart framing. Anticipated exposure. General taste. Sprinkling of bokeh. What separates amateurs and pros, beyond a paycheck, is simple: Control.

There are plenty of iPhone apps that improve or expand on the basic camera built into the iPhone and iPad. You can think of BlueStone Pond’s SetMyCamMx 1.0.3, on the other hand, as a $4 app designed ...