FURTHER NOTES ON DoF WITH NIKON COOLPIX L120... I'm no expert this is purely self taught so if any of the technical terms are wrong I do apologise but basically I've found that you need an aperture of at least f/4.5 (which is half way along the 'zoom indicator') and be at least half a meter (roughly) away from your subject or item before you will get any DoF, it wont look like your getting it on your screen but hold your shutter button down half way and then it will focus in on your subject and the background will fall out of focus, however if you release the button and then press down half again it will switch the focus from your subject to the background giving you the option of which you want it to be concentrated on, and you can switch back and forth as often as you like by simply releasing the shutter button and pressing half way again. Once you have got to grips with this you can step further back and increase the 'f-number' giving a more blurred background again, I suggest trying this out a few times so you can find the limits of this effect and to find out exactly what shots you can achieve. One more thing I found too is that it dosent seem to happen on the different scene settings but I only tried 'sunset', 'dawn', 'landscape' and 'night landscape' and none of those worked so I may be wrong about the others but I only got it to work on 'portrait', 'night portrait' and 'back lighting' and found that if you really want your subject to stand out from the blurry background use the 'back lighting' setting as the flash will help bring out your subjects finer details which is usually the whole point of DoF anyway. Hope that helps if you have this camera and like me your a learner.

Nikon Coolpix B500 Manual Online: Tips And Notes About Scene Mode. o Scene auto selector The camera automatically recognizes the shooting conditions when you frame a picture, making it easier to take pictures in accordance with those conditions. When the camera automatically recognizes...