camera focus help want to focus on foreground and blur backround?

Question

i have a casio EX-Z750 has a lot of features, but i cant figure out how to do this.

Answer 1

Set the camera to aperture priority and use the lowest possible aperture number, or alternatively set the camera to portrait mode. If you focus on something in the foreground, the background will become blurry.
The closer you are to your subject, and the more distance there is between your subject and the background, the more pronounced this effect becomes.

Answer 2

To "blur" the background (limit the depth of focus):
a) Use a telephoto lens that is at least 80mm on a 35mm SLR camera, or Digital SLR, and focus on the subject and because of the nature of the lens, the background will be out of focus. The longer the lens, the more out of focus the background;
b) If you have a lot of light, use the fastest aperture on regular (50mm or so) lens (anything like f/2.8 or faster... like f/1.8 or f/1.4, if your lens has that capacity) if using manual setting, and the corresponding shutter speed; if the shutter speed is below 1/60th second, use a tripod to avoid camera shake, which will cause the entire image to blur. Or use Aperture Priority and set the largest aperture, and check to see what the camera selects as the corresponding shutter speed; if the camera selects a shutter speed slower than 1/60th second, use the tripod. Fast apertures (large apertures) tend to make the background blurred. (This will not work on wide angle lenses, or lenses that are anywhere between 14mm to 45mm or so).

Answer 3

What you are talking about is "Depth of Field". It's not exactly a "feature" in the camera. Depth of field is controlled by the combination of all the aspects, Shutter speed, lens speed (meaning f stop) and film speed.

Generally speaking, to shorten your Depth of field, You want to use a high film speed with the f stop as low as it can go. You need to find a balance because the shutter may be to slow, you'll have to put the camera on a tripod.

Most low-end digital cameras don't have the larger lens required to produce this effect.

Answer 4

if it has the little mountain symbol or the little person and all those symbols, set it on the little person's head symbol (the one for portrait) your camera should automatically use a wide open aperture.