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EDIT: OOPS! didnt see your post zephyr! i guess you cant go wrong now, theres just too much info to miss anything [:I][:I] thanx fundy for a great tut on using a camera. im an avid photographer and i was also thinking about posting something like this, but never got around to it. its good to see so many people here so willing to help out. killer analogy with the water pipe! i wish someone explained it to me that way when i was getting started. Grande man, to augment Bob's explanation of using aperture to control depth of field, only because i had such a hard time with understanding it when i started out, when you set a larger aperture, which would be anywhere from f2.8-f4, it will give you less depth of field, or less of the picture actually in focus. in most of your pictures ive seen it looks like you use a larger aperture, which is why the pics get blurry the farther away the object is from the camera. if you want more of the picture in focus, you will have to use a smaller apertue, as Bob said above, but that will also require a longer shutter speed, because of the smaller amount of light getting thru the lens. this of course will mandate the use of a tripod to keep everything sharp. and also one thing to keep in mind is that if you are using a zoom lens, regardless of being on a digital, film, point and shoot, or SLR camera, when you zoom, it will decrease your minimum aperture, i think with most 3x zoom lenses on digital point and shoots, when fully zoomed to 3x, will decreas the minimum aperture to about f4, so you will lose that short depth of field, and your exposure will have to be slightly longer. And one more thing about digital zoom. as Bob said above, all digital zoom does is enlarge the center area of your image, and on a lower quality image (3 megapixel or lower) it will leave you with a grainy, pixellated image. but if you really need to, and you have a decent camera (4 megapixel +), you can get away with a small amount of zooming without losing alot of quality in the image, assuming you are using your high quality settings! ok thats it for my ramblings[8D]
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