Now that you can buy a fully featured digital SLR (dSLR) for five or six C-notes, virtually everyone, including your grandmother, probably knows that SLR stands for single lens reflex. However, your Nana or you on the other hand, might not know exactly what that means. SLR is a camera (film or digital) that uses a system of mirrors and/or prisms to provide clear, bright optical viewing of the image you’re about to take.
So, the dSLR’s are now more or less available in every price range. The prices have been dropping and the pixels have been increasing – it is hard to find a SLR these days that has 10 million pixels or less. So why do these dSLR’s stand out?
Read the full story »You’d expect the LCD at the back of your camera to show you exactly everything you see in the finished picture. But in most cases the LCD is way too small, colors are often washed out making it hard to identify you picture is what appears to be a little bigger than a stamp. And we’re talking about non-SLR’s here, remember.
Shutter speed choice depends on what movement you actually want to record. For people close to the camera try 1/2 sec, while people in the middle distance will need 1 to 2 seconds. Though, if you want to capture traffic…
Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re using a digital SLR, and here you are reading about developing film?! I know it doesn’t go together, but if you really want to be into the whole photography thing, you should really…
One of the great features of this website is that we intend to go through all the rules and techniques in photography right from the very beginning all the way up to the expert’s level. We’ll go through each lesson…
The LG KC910 Renoir allows the user to take super sharp 8 megapixel photos which can be edited in camera and will be instantly ready for uploading and sharing online or for printing via a computer.
The LG KC910 Renoir’s impressive list of…
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Oct 08, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Macworld Conference & Expo(R) today announced a call for entries for the new Digital Art Gallery attraction to be featured at this year’s event. Digital artists of all backgrounds are invited to…
All cameras have their own advantages and disadvantages, viewing your picture on the LCD screen right after you’ve taken it can be an excellent feature of the point-and-shoot cameras, but on the other hand, all photography enthusiasts will…
Can you see what I see? – Maybe, may be not. But what does this mean?
Before we define and go into what creativity is, lets take a step back and talk about vision and what they call the ‘eye’ for…
I may have mentioned this briefly in a previous post, but the many beginners are focusing too much on the camera without considering other factors which will affect them in the near future.
You first SLR camera is likely to stay…
While digital technologies are important, a digital camera’s performance ultimately rests on the quality of its lens, Canon Inc. (TSE:7751) Director Masaya Maeda said in a recent interview with The Nikkei Business Daily.
Excerpts from the interview follow.
Q: What is the…
A lot of people assume that those big hefty SLR cameras are for proper professional photographers. In fact, you’d be surprised how many ‘normal’ people own one of them, and you know why – nothing else matches to the quality…
Can you see what I see? – Maybe, may be not. But what does this mean?
Before we define and go into what creativity is, lets take a step back and talk about vision and what they call the ‘eye’ for…
I may have mentioned this briefly in a previous post, but the many beginners are focusing too much on the camera without considering other factors which will affect them in the near future.
You first SLR camera is likely to stay…
There are loads of photo editing software out there, and you’re probably going to get some with your SLR camera, but they are usually very basic and are not capable of advanced photo and image modifications. You might be able…
The LG KC910 Renoir allows the user to take super sharp 8 megapixel photos which can be edited in camera and will be instantly ready for uploading and sharing online or for printing via a computer.
The LG KC910 Renoir’s impressive list of…
Welcome to Visual Forgery (VF)… probably just another photography website – but there’s a bit of a twist!
This website is really all about teaching and helping users to grasp the basics of photography, we do this step by step, one post…
