Aperture - Samsung Digital Camera Pocket Manual

THE NX SYSTEM

APERTURE

Learn how to control what details appear sharp in the
background of your pictures using your aperture
The aperture (known by photographers as
an 'f-stop') is used to control the amount of
depth-of-field, or what appears in sharp detail
from the front to the back of an image. A
small number (or wide aperture) of, say, f/3.5
gives what's called a shallow depth-of-field
and is generally used for portraits to make a
distracting background go blurry and your
subject more prominent in the picture. As the
aperture number increases, the depth-of-field
increases too. Landscape photographers
like to use small apertures of around f/16 or
f/22 so everything from the foreground all
the way to the background appears in sharp
detail, also known as a deep depth-of-field. So,
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in essence, your aperture is used to control
what in the background looks detailed.
To see the effect of an aperture on a picture or subject, shoot one with
an open aperture and another with a closed aperture and compare
DON'T FORGET: APERTURE-PRIORITY MODE
By turning the main control dial to 'A' you can set the aperture yourself
but the NX will automatically control your shutter speed for you.
THE POCKET GUIDE TO THE SAMSUNG NX
Use the Scene mode to
automatically optimise the
NX's settings for the type of
picture you are taking.
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