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Friday, November 16, 2007

Depth of Field

Back on the topic of the Nikkor 18 - 200, here's a shot showing depth of field at extended zoom:



F 5.6 ... 200 mm ... 1/60 sec

These are the same shot. The first image has been compressed to save bytes. The second image is a crop; if you click on it you will see it at 100% relative to the original.

This shot was taken on a windy day - I missed the moment when the leaf was fully vertical but am nonetheless impressed by the lens's auto-focus working with the moving target.

Having used the lens for a couple of months now, I really like the large aperture bokeh at extended zoom, though the narrow depth of field does require precise attention to focus, as the following shots show:


F 5.6 ... 120 mm ... 1/160 sec

Despite the shorter zoom, the area of sharpest focus is at the intersection of bricks between the leaves. Ho hum... boring.


F 5.6 ... 200 mm ... 1/200 sec

This time the leaf is in focus and the brick blurs slightly. Once again an uncompressed crop to show the detail at 100%.



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