Can you have a blurry background in a nikon digital camera?
For example, it focuses on the person and the rest is blurry. It's like the iPhone/iPod/iPad camera, it focuses on one thing. I want to get it for Yearbook Staff. I also would like the big ones that have special lenses, but you would have to pay a huge amount of money. I like the Nikon brands. But can the Nikon Digital Camera work? For the special lenses camera, you would have to look at the hole or something. If there's something like that under $300, could you tell me the price?
A huge amount of money is relative.
Pros pay $5, 000 or more for each of their cameras (no lens), so that is expensive
Beginners buy what are called entry level dSLR (which can do what you want) like the Nikon D3200 and those cost $700 with a lens.
You will be able to see how much out of focus the background will be as you look through the cameras viewfinder.
If you had looked on the Nikon website you would have noticed that there are no dSLR cameras that cost $300
What you're looking for is just a manual focus option. If the camera doesn't have that, you can't do anything other than Photoshop the background and make it blurry. Compact Digitals usually don't have manual focus like this. Find a cheap digital SLR.
Nope. You can only do that with Canon cameras.
The effect that you are after is called bokeh, it happens (with DSLR's) when you use a lense with a large aperture or small f-number.
It is related to the shallow depth of field that the lense provides.
You can also achieve this effect by using Photoshop or Lightroom, but it will be slightly different.
DSLR lenses like this (50mm 1.2 or 85 1.2 etc) will cost over 1500 easily, but you can get away with it using other methods for cheaper
The brand of camera doesn't matter-it's the lens that does this optically, or through image editing. Does the school have equipment it can lend, or are you the person responsible for such lending?
It is very difficult to do with compact cameras since they have wide depth of field (the background will usually be in focus). The tiny cameras in phones or tablets can't do this without processing.
A 55-200mm or 55-250 lens on any DSLR could do this at the long end-these are typically the cheapest telephoto lenses available for a particular lens mount. New kits start around $600, but used kits (such as the Canon Rebel XT or Nikon D70) can go around $250 for both items.
Lenses with wide apertures can also do this, but they tend to be more expensive. 50mm non-zoom lenses are typically available, but telephoto lenses are more preferred for portrait work.
Photoshop can easily blur backgrounds, but not quite in the same way that it happens in-camera.