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How to choose the best aperture? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by OakTownPudge@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro
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When shooting with a given lens, how do you know which aperture is optimal for your creative vision?

Let’s say you want shallow dof, is there a place where you can learn that the sweet spot for dof and sharpness for a given lens model is when it’s stopped down by 1/2 stop?  

Conversely, where would you go to learn that a given lens model goes soft after f/11?

Sure, you could create a test rig, take tons of pictures with each at every aperture and inspect them with a magnifying glass, but that seems awfully inefficient.

Thanks and I look forward to everyone’s guidance and insights…

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[–] Garrett_1982@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shoot shoot shoot. One lens. One camera. Shoot the crap out of it. You don’t learn from forums, reddits, YouTube or reading other people’s opinions online. Shoot.

[–] JO-Photo@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

True, one my one zoom lens I get the least diffraction between f6.3 and f8 while my other one got it's sweetspot somewhere between 7.1 and 9, both performing the best when being relatively close to their respectives middle focal lengths