BillinTexas wrote:
When I bought my A1, I watched Mike Smith's video on settings and used many of them, though not all. I have also seen Geoff post some of his back a while ago, and he was helpful regarding those settings.
My AF-On is spot focus, and I use the release (Geoff) for BIF, but with Zone focus instead of Wide. Zone was recommended by Kenny Lin. I get many more hits using Z over W. I have never explored the different focusing, as I haven't felt the need to.
Daran wrote:
Whether you shoot in APS-C or do the same crop in post does not affect the image at all. The optical characteristics are the same either way. But because you are enlarging the image (when presenting less pixels in the overall same view), you are enlarging any unsharp areas so that they now look less sharp. Hence parts of the image that were just sharp enough to be rated sharp are now looking soft.
I'm a bit baffled why this seems hard to understand. But maybe I spent too much time with digital images.
It's not but your post seemed to be suggesting that 'cropping' or not cropping would somehow change the DOF on the captured image and fix the fact that in the captured image the birds head is oof because the camera focussed on the wing tips.
If not that then, in the context of the OPs problem, what was the point of your post ?
duncangr wrote:
It's not but your post seemed to be suggesting that 'cropping' or not cropping would somehow change the DOF on the captured image
It does. At least if you accept the meaning of the word as it is commonly understood: the depth of the area perceived as sharp when an image is viewed in its entirety.
and fix the fact that in the captured image the birds head is oof because the camera focussed on the wing tips.
If not that then, in the context of the OPs problem, what was the point of your post ?
You said in the post I quoted: Stop down a bit perhaps - small bird at a distance (big crop you said) should mostly be in focus ?
And my point was that shooting a bird smaller, only to then crop back to a better composition will not retain the DOF that the wider shot had.
