Higher end Canon cameras, such as digital SLRs, feature an aperture setting that allows you to control the sharpness of your images. The aperture setting can be customized to make an area of a photo ...

The A on your camera’s mode dial is not for Amateur (and the P is not for Professional, but that’s another story). Aperture priority mode, designated by A or Av on the camera’s mode dial, blends the ...

There’s a common joke in photography circles that the aperture priority on a camera's mode dial means “A for amateur." But here’s the thing: I’m a pro photographer, and I still use aperture priority ...

DSLRs and other advanced cameras have a ton of letters, symbols, and weird buttons on them. Every photographer must go through the quest of learning what each setting does, and today we are talking ...

In controlling only for the variable of graphics aperture, 3dMark03 tests out at a single-digit difference amongst the settings at 64, 128, and 256. The difference is slightly greater at 32, but ...