Aperture priority on a mini digicam?

[wolfereeno]

Do any of the compact digital cameras have aperture override settings?

Thx

[mwfanelli]

Do any of the compact digital cameras have aperture override settings?

Thx

If you mean aperture priority, yes some do. But its not all that useful because the focal lengths (real, not "equivalent") are so small that DOF is tremendous regardless.

[wolfereeno]

Ah, that's interesting. I guess DOF is usually pretty great in my pictures.

Thanks

[Photo-John]

What Michael said is true - depth-of-field control isn't a big issue with compact digital cameras. But...

It's a big deal if you want shallow depth-of-field. Because of the tiny sensors, compact digital cameras have tons of depth-of-field. So portraits with soft backgrounds are hard to do. There are lots of compacts with aperture controls, either full manual or aperture-priority exposure modes. But they have limited value since it's tough to get a shallow depth-of-field. If you want lots of depth-of-field, compact digital cameras are great, though. So for landscapes or macro photos, where getting enough depth-of-field can be a problem, compacts have bonus depth-of-field.

Hope that explains it a little better.