Tag: cameras
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Automatic Mode
Photo by Marion West So you got a new camera. Congratulations! Maybe it’s one of the newer complex mirrorless camera or a simple point-and-shoot but all digital cameras whether complex or simple have an automatic mode. Should you shoot in automatic mode? Professional photographers won’t admit to shooting on auto mode but there are times…
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What’s A Camera?
I usually start teaching my photography classes with this question: What’s a camera? My answer is a camera is basically just a light-tight box. That’s it. Early cameras were just wooden boxes with a back mechanism that would hold a piece of film (often 4X5 inch or 8X10″) and at the other end a very…
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Film or Digital
Why has there been so much interest in black and white film photography when digital is so much easier to use and so much improved when it comes to quality of the images? The simple answer is dynamic range. So what’s dynamic range and why is it important? The simple answer actually lies in our…
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