What aperture should I use? 3 tips how to select the best aperture 

"know your gear" is much more difficult than "buy new gear"!!! thanks for the effort and the sharing. thumbs up.

Thank you Matti! I was waiting for this video. Selecting optimal aperture is still a dark secret for me and you you clarified it well enough!

Good general advice, especially practice and knowing your gear. Thank you.

That lens putting intro is dope. Love it!

Thank you for the tips really helpful!

I took my camera - Lumix Fz2500 - down to a spot on the Sacramento River - put it on the tripod and composed a shot. Then I selected the ' Art ' mode & took the same shot - each time changing to the next filter, until I had tried them all. This way I was, afterword, able to see which affect I liked & which I didn't. As you say, " Know your gear." By becoming familiarized with my camera it has opened up my choices for a shot as well as cut down on the time spent. In the near future I plan on getting the Panasonic G9. I feel with what I've learned on the Fz , that this will lessen my time needed to get to understand the G9. Thanks for this video.

Thanks Matti

This was very important for me. Until recently, I had been working hard to shoot as much as possible at f1.8 to get that wonderful bokeh. Of course, this made my life miserable because things that should be in focus were not. So, I tried harder, and kept getting disappointed. I started figuring things out, and got confirmation that I shouldn’t always shoot wide open. NOW, you have provided some specific advice. THANK YOU!

Hi Matti, this has also become a super video like the others. Thank you very much :)

Outstanding practical advice and very useful tutorial as always. You give me the confidence needed to move out of program mode.

Great info thanks!

I am speaking French but I understand all words you have pronounced! You’re are very good for explain photography!! Thanks!

That was a very useful video - thanks Martti. You should do more content like that :)

Good stuff as always.

Thank you for your good and understandable help in choosing the right aperture. These are the tips that I need as a hobby photographer. I'm looking forward to your next videos. Greetings from Germany by Dirk (Lumix DMC G81)

Thank you. Useful informations. All The Best! Vasile

cool stuff!

Thanks good info

Thanks!

The tip about stopping down a bit is well worth remembering. I got an old Konica Hexanon 1.7 a few years back and, obsessed with bokey, shot it wide open for a few days and dismissed it as unremarkable. Last week I took it out, stopped it down *one stop* and the lens is amazing!

Hello with love from subsea... watching your video in a submarine in Oman sea!

Thx for this

Great tips! I need to practise my shots more. I definitely noticed a difference in the quality of my photos when I took pictures frequently and when I stopped for a while due to some personal reasons. :(

Thank you Matti -- "f8 And Be There" -- old photojournalism quote. I guess for MFT it should be "f4 And Need No More." Have you heard of CameraRescue? Located in Tampere Finland? I saw a RU-vid video from Mathieu Stern where he toured this place -- amazing collection of vintage cameras and lenses -- and they repair the ones that they can, and sell their surplus. And they even have modern cameras (like Micro-Four Thirds). Another reason for me to travel to Finland!!!

Great vid! I think using focus peaking can also help determining which aperture to use as well.

thankyou this was great! would canons apsc sensors be considered about the same? My fav lens is a 22mm 2.0 and I want to shoot myself like in my video 10 Things You Need To Know BEFORE Buying A Snake but whenever I try to with a snake the focus fights between my face and the animal. would I be better off manual focusing and setting the aperture at 5.6 or would setting the aperture to a fixed 5.6 the auto focus will still keep everything in focus? What do you think is my best bet to be able to look clear along with a moving snake. Thanks! if your ever in Toronto you can come shoot some snakes!

I think people who are new to portrait photography don't consider how close they are to the subject and how it changes from full length to head shot. I too start at f/4 with head shots but usually start at f/2 shooting full length with my Olympus 45mm lens. Good advice.

Another tasty video Sir, thank you.

Hey Matti, 👍👍👍.

The information I am missing is focal length. I have lenses from 20mm to 200mm. Dof is not the same as you know it.

Where dept of focus goes behindbor in front of focus point i cant figure it out?

Hello Matti, thanks this video was very helpful for me - a budding youtuber. I noticed on my 1st video shot with a G9 (with firmware 2.0 installed) that the face detect AF was having trouble staying locked on to my face when I was stopped down to f/1.7 on the DG Leica 15mm coupled with a variable ND to prevent over exposure; I was practicing ETTR as well. I do vlog style 'walk and talk' shots and afterwards it became clear that f/1.7 has too shallow a DOF for this - too much bokeh can be a bad thing, haha. But I was curious if you think that the reason the AF would not stay locked on was because of too shallow a depth of field?

You do not talk about APSC systems :))

F2 on 30 mm gives more dof than f2 on 100 or 200 mm. Depth of field does not only depend on the f-number, but also on the focal lenght of the lens and the distance to the subject

Ok, so if I want to take o photo of, lets say a playground, I need to go to F5.6 or F8 to get everything in focus? Does this rule also apply to video when using autofocus?

Hi. Do you have any advice for Aps-c shooters. Thanks in advance.

You set your aperture after what kind of photo you want to create , there is no rules no right or wrong in photography ..