Today we are going to look at some of the built in functions of a digital camera. All consumer model digital cameras have built in automatic functions called shooting modes. These modes are meant to allow the camera to make all of the decisions so you don’t have to think, you can just [...]
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By far the most popular question I get from new Digital SLR owners is “what lens should I buy first?”. I usually recommend people buy a more powerful flash first, but having a good lens is definitely another key to taking better digital pictures. Lenses seem like a big purchase to most new DSLR [...]
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The most common question I get from new DSLR owners is “which lens should I buy?”. That is a fun subject and one that will make your tax return disappear quicker than you can blink. In my opinion though, there is a more important and possibly cheaper purchase for first time DSLR owners [...]
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In our first lesson on metering modes, we talked about how to tell the camera which parts of the photograph are the most important. Matrix metering (Canon calls it Evaluative metering and Sony calls it Multi-segment metering) takes the entire scene into account and averages the exposure across the entire image. This is great [...]
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Communication is the key to every relationship, right? Well, the same applies to you and your camera. It’s usually a love-hate relationship, based on the last set or prints you ordered. But if you haven’t given your camera any direction, don’t you deserve some of the blame? Yes, you do!
The key [...]
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