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Old 24-10-09, 19:26
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Originally Posted by yelvertoft View Post
f/1.8 at the kind of ranges in use in a small living room will give an exceptionally short DoF, probably too shot, unless you want the sitter's nose to be out of focus. Or, more likely, the nose in focus and the eyes out of focus. Not a good proposition.....
It does not have to stay on f1.8, you can change it to other apertures as required you know! The f1.8 gives you the opportunity for narrow depth of field, for example only the nearest eye in focus.
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