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Price drop: Canon SX50 $329 - Mike Johnson - 11-16-2013
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009B0MZ1M/
Re: Price drop: Canon SX50 $329 - space-time - 11-16-2013
tempting. we have too many cameras already
K-01
Q with Prime.
Q with Zoom
*istD
Canon ELPH HS 300
iPhone 5 (2x)
then some older cameras for kids
Canon A70 (almost dead, good for the 4 year old)
Canon A 630 (for the 8 year old)
But none come close to the zoom on the SX50 (or 40)
decisions decisions... probably pass for now
Re: Price drop: Canon SX50 $329 - The UnDoug - 11-16-2013
So what I want.....as silly as it may be....is a camera which makes it easy to get that out of focus background with an in focus subject. Focal length, right?
On all the point and shoots I've had, that either isn't possible, or isn't as easy as I'd like it to be.
Can the SX 40/50 do this easily?
Re: Price drop: Canon SX50 $329 - freeradical - 11-16-2013
The UnDoug wrote:
So what I want.....as silly as it may be....is a camera which makes it easy to get that out of focus background with an in focus subject. Focal length, right?
No
The bigger your sensor, the easier this will be.
Focal length and distance to the subject really have nothing to do with depth of field.
What matters is the reproduction ratio, which is the size of your subject on your sensor with respect to how big your subject is in real life.
So, with a 35mm film camera or a full frame DSLR, you can have someone who is 6 feet tall in real life be one inch tall on your sensor. This is a 1:72 ratio.
On a 645 medium format film camera, you can make that 6 foot tall person two inches high on film for a 1:36 ratio.
So, F4 on a 645 camera has about the same depth of field as F2 on a 35mm camera.
The tiny sensor of a point and shoot digital camera makes it tough to have restricted depth of field since the reproduction ratio might be as high as 1:1000.
Re: Price drop: Canon SX50 $329 - N-OS X-tasy! - 11-16-2013
The UnDoug wrote:
So what I want.....as silly as it may be....is a camera which makes it easy to get that out of focus background with an in focus subject. Focal length, right?
On all the point and shoots I've had, that either isn't possible, or isn't as easy as I'd like it to be.
Can the SX 40/50 do this easily?
I thought that is what portrait mode is for?
Re: Price drop: Canon SX50 $329 - Grateful11 - 11-17-2013
The UnDoug wrote:
So what I want.....as silly as it may be....is a camera which makes it easy to get that out of focus background with an in focus subject. Focal length, right?
On all the point and shoots I've had, that either isn't possible, or isn't as easy as I'd like it to be.
Can the SX 40/50 do this easily?
I can do it with my SX40, these were shot through window glass.
Re: Price drop: Canon SX50 $329 - Mike Johnson - 11-17-2013
The Canon S100 digital Elph goes down to f2.0 while the SX50 bottoms out at f3.4. Just monkeying around with them on Aperture priority I can blur out the background on the Elph more than on the SX50, shooting a flower in a vase on a table with a painting on the wall 3 feet behind.
Re: Price drop: Canon SX50 $329 - JoeM - 11-17-2013
Grateful11 wrote:
[quote=The UnDoug]
So what I want.....as silly as it may be....is a camera which makes it easy to get that out of focus background with an in focus subject. Focal length, right?
On all the point and shoots I've had, that either isn't possible, or isn't as easy as I'd like it to be.
Can the SX 40/50 do this easily?
I can do it with my SX40, these were shot through window glass.
Nice! Could you please share your settings and shooting mode for shooting those or photos like that with the SX40? I can't seem to get results like that with mine. TIA!
Re: Price drop: Canon SX50 $329 - Grateful11 - 11-18-2013
JoeM wrote:
[quote=Grateful11]
[quote=The UnDoug]
So what I want.....as silly as it may be....is a camera which makes it easy to get that out of focus background with an in focus subject. Focal length, right?
On all the point and shoots I've had, that either isn't possible, or isn't as easy as I'd like it to be.
Can the SX 40/50 do this easily?
I can do it with my SX40, these were shot through window glass.
Nice! Could you please share your settings and shooting mode for shooting those or photos like that with the SX40? I can't seem to get results like that with mine. TIA!
The first one had these settings:
and then the second
I'm thinking I was shooting in full Auto but that was almost a year ago. I know they were handheld.
Re: Price drop: Canon SX50 $329 - JoeM - 11-18-2013
Nice, thanks. I'm somewhat amazed you shot those in Auto. I have tried in AV but haven't been totally been happy with the effect. Looks like I have more practicing to do.