gocny wrote:
- 2. Shoot from relatively far away with a relatively long lens. For photographing bonsai, I get good results using a 70mm lens on my D70 digital SLR; this is the equivalent of using a 120 mm lens (short telephoto) on a regular 35 mm camera.
Is this also the equivalent of of moving the camera back and zooming in a little when using a digital camera with no manual aperture control, an auto focus and optical zoom?
Having the whole tree in focus is still something I am struggling with on trees with a lot of depth. I've tried all sorts of distances (between camera and subject) with and without zoom and it seems to be completely the luck of the draw at the moment. I'm begging to wonder if it's simply that and auto focus camera can not detect the distance to the subject properly when the subject is so small (relatively). I would go back to my old 'fancy' camera but it's film and so negates the usual reason I take pictures of my trees.