Tag: cameras
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Medium Format Shooting
Photo by Vivian Maier When it comes to street photography one of the great challenges is to shoot medium format. Essentially medium format is any camera that shoots film or a digital image that’s larger than 35 mm and less than 4″ X 5″ or certainly 8 X 10″. So what’s so desirable about medium…
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Wedding Gear
When it comes to shooting weddings what gear do you need? In the Nikon world the standard wedding photographer’s kit goes like this: That’s it. That’s all you need and the price of all this goodness is well north of $10,000 and that’s another reason why you can’t be charging $2,000 per wedding. That’s a…
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Travel Cameras & Lenses
I was on one of the Olympus FaceBook sites yesterday where a woman* photographer (this is a relevant piece of information) was asking what lenses she should take on a vacation trip to the Far East? Seems a friend was willing to loan her a bunch of Olympus lenses including some PRO zooms and other…
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How Many Lenses Do I Need?
The answer is one. Of course almost nobody shoots with just one lens – well maybe the Leica film crowd with their super sharp 35mm lenses – but you really only need one lens. So which lenses should this one lens be? Generally speaking you can use your kit lens (that’s the small inexpensive zoom…
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Does Size Matter?
When we are talking about sensors, does size matter? Do you really need or even want a full-size sensor or would a micro four-thirds sensor be a better fit? This image from Wikipedia shows the different size sensors that you can buy and a lot depends on your camera model. For example I shoot micro…
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Do expensive camera work better than cheaper ones?
Photo by Marion West Yes….but! But do you need the latest and greatest technological wonder? Unless you’re a professional photographer and selling your images probably not. Sure it’s nice to have the newest camera but it’s been my experience teaching thousands of students over the years that very few (I’m tempted to say if any)…
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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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