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Originally Posted by Iguanasan
I have a Canon PowerShot SX110 IS and have played with it enough to discover the same capabilities. The limitation, however, comes in when you want a shallow depth of field on an object that is far away.
I tried to take a shot of a sailboat and put it in focus and everything behind it out of focus but it will not work unless you are practically on top of the boat. So, for portraits or macros it works great but trying to achieve DOF in landscapes is near to impossible with a P&S.
Regards, Iguanasan
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Speaking of point-and-shoots... all the folks here who have ultrazooms like the SX series and the prosumer cameras like the G9 have manual controls, I believe. My SD850 IS (the only digital camera I own, in fact) trumps all in terms of lack of control. However, I was still able to get shallow depth of field pictures like the following:
This was taken with the macro setting, which seems to work pretty well. (You can check out more flowers in macro in my Flickr photostream—click on the picture.) With manual controls you could just use larger apertures (smaller f-stop numbers).
But back to Iguanasan—he's right. Portrait mode will only get you a shallow depth of field at maybe 5-10 feet (I haven't tried it yet). For a ship in the distance, a point-and-shoot just isn't going to cut it.
I haven't really brought anything new to the conversation, just verified what everybody else has already said.