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The Top 5 Mistakes Photographers Make When Shooting Video
With DSLR filmmaking becoming easier and more affordable, every day more photographers are taking the plunge into moving images. Good still shooters can make great video shooters, but only if they understand the key differences between the two media. Here’s a list of the most common mistakes I see still photographers make while shooting video. [...]
Choosing A Photo Editing Software
There are two school of thoughts one that says ‘a perfect photograph is one that doesn’t require any adjustments‘ and another school of thought that insists ‘all photos taken with a digital camera needs sharpening‘. In my opinion one should use a good photo editing software, but the purpose of using the software should be [...]
Lytro’s Light Field Camera
What is Light Field Photography? A light-field photography often addressed as plenoptic photography is the concept which uses a microlens array in order to capture 4D light field information. Such light field information can be used in various fields like HD computer graphics and Computer vision based solutions. Though this concept is not new (originally [...]
75 percent of people buy the wrong digital camera
When I teach a new class learning digital photography, over 75% of the students turn up with the camera the salesman suggested. Guess what? They soon find out that it’s the wrong one for them. This can be a very expensive mistake. So the big questions are what is the right one for me and [...]
5 Materials And Technologies That Just Might Eliminate Digital Camera Shutter Delay
Bob pushed the shutter release button and…NOTHING HAPPENED. The football passed into his son’s hands and the actual photo he took was one of a cheerleader’s pom-pom. Bob missed the touchdown too. He resisted an insane urge to slam the camera to the ground and jump on it. This was his first digital camera, and [...]
Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras – Product Description: AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G lens, is the first fixed focal length, fast-aperture DX-format lens that affords photographers superb image quality along with the creative possibilities and versatility of the classic 50mm focal length (FX-format equivalent of 52mm). When mounted on [...]
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens – Review
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens – Product Review: Amazon.com Product Description Lightweight and affordable, the Canon EF 50mm lens–which offers a fast f/1.8 aperture–is an excellent lens for people who prefer a fixed focal length. Canon’s lightest EF lens at a mere 4.6 ounces, the lens boasts a traditional Gauss-type optical design that [...]
