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Originally Posted by ALoneR
it varies from camera to camera. older digital cameras have the aperture fixed. mine actually goes from f/2.8 to f/6.5 but thats a terrible range, it might as well be fixed. your camera is probably newer or a more expensive point and shoot.
no matter what tho, you can never adjust the aperture on a point and shoot, so it really doesn't matter what you have...the camera designates it on it's own. the closest you have to control is selecting macro shot or landscape shot....but even then, the camera will decide which aperture to use. if you select macro, and then try to shoot your car, it won't use a lower aperture, even though you asked it to.
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Yeah, I see what you're saying.
After looking at some of my pictures, I realized the ones with the high apertures were zoomed in. Looking at my camera, it looks like the range is 2.8-5.8 with no zoom and 5.8-17.4 using zoom.
You should check out some of the newer Canon p&s. They actually have manual (M, Tv, Av) controls. I was pretty surprised when I saw that. Too bad they feel so cheap.