promiselamb opened this issue on Mar 07, 2009 ยท 59 posts
Meowgli posted Sun, 08 March 2009 at 4:11 PM
my understanding of this is that A-Dep will essentially do a calculation of the hyperfocal distance and select an aperture accordingly so that as much from front to back is in focus as possible provided everything falls under the camera's autofocus points (f/22 or whatever the lens' smallest aperture is might not be necessary)... as you're shooting in manual anyway, seems to me the logical thing to do would be to compose your scene, set everything up, flick it into A-Dep, take a note of the aperture it gives out, then recompose the scene in Manual mode using that aperture.... you should then have the same depth of field as in the other mode, with the bonus of being able to use the flash....
I wasn't quite sure what you meant by 'good' depth of field, could you maybe be a little more specific?
Adam