Landscape shooting

[NiTRouS]

Im wanting to know what the best settings are for shooting landscape.

So far ive been using F3.2 and then auto shutter speed, but will using F8 make my photo's any sharper?

Would anyone mind explaining to me what effect the F number has on a photo at long distance?

Thanks

 

[SDK^]

A smaller aperture (larger number) will give you further distance in acceptable focus, so, using F5.6 ot F8 will give more info focus.
It is possible to calculate the hyperfocal distance of a lens at each aperture at a given distance to your subject; this will tell you what aperture you can select to get sharp photo (infinity focus).

If you are using a compact digital camera then you will get infinity focus using relatively wide apertures

 

[NiTRouS]

So the higher F Number the better, not suprising my photo came out wrong then, lol, i was using one of the lowest ones.

Camera is a kodak p880, and it does have the infinity focus on it, but again, I was using f3.2, so probably didn't help an awful lot