stu dall Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 The above finally arrived today from the supplier. I have had a quick play with it, and have been studying the functions and settings.I am new to digital, and have only been shooting with medium and large format for the last few years, and pretty much shoot landscapes exclusively. I am aware that depth of field is a fair degree greater in digital format, but am frankly amazed that the minimum aperture on this camera is only f/8. I have bought it primarily to take on holiday in December, not wanting to lug my MF gear half way round the world, and my wife will be using it far more than me when we return. That said, I did want to do some fairly serious landscape stuff with tripod and ND Grad filters etc. Is f/8 sufficient for reasonable quality landscape shots with front to back sharpness, or have I just bought the wrong camera for my needs? Stu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erick_k Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Stuart, for compact p/s cameras the sweet spot is closer to f/4 than f/11. Diffraction appears at 5.6 so f/8 is a bit like using f/22 on full frame -- beyond the ideal aperture/quality for the camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drj Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 As a slight aside... look into the G10's ND feature. It has an electronic version of a neutral density filter built-in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_ferris Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Hi Stuart Read this and relax, you have the right camera :-) http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/kidding.shtml Take care, Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_tuthill Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Good luck producing HD video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcuknz Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 If you check Depth of Field tables .... www.dofmaster.com ..... you will find I think that at f/8 you have the similar depth of field as if you were working at f/22 to f/32 with the longer focal length lens of a 35mm camera and much more than MF or LF camera .... so you can work at the 'sweet' aperture suggested without any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu dall Posted October 25, 2008 Author Share Posted October 25, 2008 Thanks to you all..........again. My mind has been put at rest. Stu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galileo42 Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 I am awaiting my G10 in the next few hours, and I know my problem will be the exact opposite: too much DOF :) I like to take snapshot portraits of family and friends, but the background is always killing me. Oh, well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_tuthill Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Michel, I was going to recommend you return the G10 and get a Panasonic LX3 for its f/2.8 at the long end (60mm equiv) but I did some DOF calculations and it appears that you should get good background blur with the G10, f/4.5 at the long end (140mm equiv). Use aperture priority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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