The Canon Digital Rebel series of cameras offer manual aperture control, which adjusts the photograph's depth of field. The aperture is a internal ring that closes around the lens to reduce the amount ...

Our approach to extending the depth of field utilizes the concept of point spread function (PSF) engineering to greatly increase the axial range clearly imaged in a single exposure. The basic concept ...

Most creative arts suffer from trends. Someone does something new or unusual, and suddenly dozens of others are imitating it; just look at Hollywood. Since the arrival of the Canon 5D Mark II, shallow ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The hottest new trend in photography is manipulating Depth of Field, or DOF. It’s how you get those wonderful portraits with the subject in focus and the background ever so artfully blurred out. In ...

Replay: Today's large sensor cameras allow us much more control over depth of field than older, small sensor devices. Here's some tips on how to use depth of field as a creative tool. When DSLR video ...

There are lots of different filmmaking terms out there that get tossed around in articles and meetings. It can be hard to ...

The area in an image from front to back that is in focus. The smaller the aperture (the larger the f-stop number), the more objects are in focus both near and distant. The wider the aperture (the ...

The development of HD video cameras has led to a move toward electronic cinematography. The 24p scanning format contributes to the film look, but one of the classic characteristics when shooting 35mm ...