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You can use the ISO control built into your digital camera to vary its sensitivity to light and thus mimic the effect of using different grades of 35mm film. This ... Read more..Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Understanding Exposure | No Comments »
All that talk about f/stops, shutter speed, and ISO settings may seem irrelevant to your digital camera, but it’s not—all cameras use these concepts, even though they’re sometimes disguised fairly ... Read more..Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Understanding Exposure | No Comments »
So far so good—but there’s one other aspect to consider, and that’s the fact that camera lenses can change the diameter of their aperture, thus letting in more or ... Read more..Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Understanding Exposure | No Comments »
As you no doubt know by shopping for film, not all canisters of 35mm film are alike. Film is differentiated principally by its speed, or ISO number. A film’s ISO ... Read more..Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Understanding Exposure | No Comments »
Traditional cameras rely on good old-fashioned film. But what is film, really? It’s just a strip of plastic that has been coated with a light-sensitive chemical. The chemical soup on ... Read more..Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Absolute Camera Basics | No Comments »
Every hobby has its accessories. I sometimes joke that my dive buddy only became interested in scuba diving after she discovered that scuba gear was a whole new way to ... Read more..Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Absolute Camera Basics | No Comments »
Getting images out of your camera is just as important as taking the pictures to begin with. If you like to view your freshly shot images on a television or ... Read more..