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THE POCKET GUIDE TO THE SAMSUNG NXTHE NX SYSTEM
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The aperture (known by photographers as
an ‘f-stop’) is used to control the amount of
depth-of-ield, or what appears in sharp detail
from the front to the back of an image. A
small number (or wide aperture) of, say, f/3.5
gives what’s called a shallow depth-of-ield
and is generally used for portraits to make a
distracting background go blurry and your
subject more prominent in the picture. As the
aperture number increases, the depth-of-ield
increases too. Landscape photographers
like to use small apertures of around f/16 or
f/22 so everything from the foreground all
the way to the background appears in sharp
detail, also known as a deep depth-of-ield. So,
in essence, your aperture is used to control
what in the background looks detailed.
Learn how to control what details appear sharp in the
background of your pictures using your aperture
APERTURE
DON’T FORGET: APERTURE-PRIORITY MODE
By turning the main control dial to ‘A’ you can set the aperture yourself
but the NX will automatically control your shutter speed for you.
Use the Scene mode to
automatically optimise the
NX’s settings for the type of
picture you are taking.
To see the eect of an aperture on a picture or subject, shoot one with
an open aperture and another with a closed aperture and compare
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