11-12-2024 09:31 AM - last edited on 11-12-2024 10:21 AM by Danny
Hi All, I have a new 2000D and love it as it's simple and very light for hiking in the mountains but not as much as I love my much older EOS A2 slide film camera. My question is: My A2 had the ability to choose focus points within a depth of field by pressing the shutter button once for each focus point then again to capture the image. Simple and very efficient way to gain a comprehensive depth of field. I don't see that this feature is available on the 2000D. Am I missing something (probably a lot I know) but why is such a great feature not available on a simple but modern camera? Can anyone help? Thank you in advance. Stay focused!
11-12-2024 09:45 AM
There used to be a mode called A-DEP on the early digital cameras:
But it is long gone, too.
I am guessing that with the huge number of focus points on later cameras, it just wasn't feasible to have this feature, and few used it anyway.
11-12-2024 01:53 PM
@kvbarkley wrote:
There used to be a mode called A-DEP on the early digital cameras:
But it is long gone, too.
I am guessing that with the huge number of focus points on later cameras, it just wasn't feasible to have this feature, and few used it anyway.
Perhaps Live View supplanted the feature.
11-12-2024 10:03 AM
11-12-2024 10:27 AM
Thanks Stephen, I'll look into this later on. I'll report back.
11-12-2024 10:09 AM
We are not talking about DOF preview.
The DEP and A-DEP modes actually used the difference in distance between two (or more!) focus points and adjusted aperture and shutter to get those focus points in focus.
I have often felt it would be nice to have a hyper-focus setting on a digital camera.
11-12-2024 10:33 AM
I take mostly landscape images and the old A2 was incredible for that, just had to develop the slides and then digitise them. I have (shield your eyes and ears) an old Nikon coolscan 4000 which does the job but takes a while. I was hoping the lightweight 2000D would be a good alternative and great for the hiking I do to get the shot. I gave up years ago on my Nikon D2x as it was just too heavy and of course compared to these days had no pixels.
11-12-2024 10:53 AM
If the concern is getting a lot in focus, just learn the hyperfocus setting for your lens and focus on something at that distance - if you don't have a distance scale.
https://bobatkins.com/photography/technical/doftable.html
11-12-2024 11:48 AM
Just for the record, here is how the DEP mode on the A2 worked:
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