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Knowing Digital Camera Type: Super-Zoom Cameras

September 28th, 2011

Super zoom camera has a physical size larger than a pocket camera, and as the name implies has an optical zoom capability as far as 15 times or even up to 20 times. Why is there a camera? Because so many important events happened in the distance, on stage, in the pulpit, in marriage, in the sports field.

Besides super zoom camera has advantages in its ability to see from a distance, it also has another major advantage compared to compact cameras: tiny peephole that fit to your eye (eyepiece viewfinder). Peephole is very useful if you are photographing amid the heat of the day (only compact cameras have an LCD screen behind which is totally useless if you are in the area brightly lit). One again, super zoom cameras also usually have an LCD screen that can be bent – bend so that helps you take pictures from unusual angles.

The drawback? Technically this camera still has a relatively small sensor, so its ability in low light conditions is still limited. For outdoor shooting is still very okay result, but once you have brought into the room you will begin to exhaustion to get sharp photos and good.

In size, super-zoom camera is also quite responsible. There will never fit in the bag, so we have to take him on the shoulder.

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Knowing Digital Camera Type: SLR Camera

September 15th, 2011

You might have been quite satisfied with the quality of the photos from a tiny pocket camera. Then begin to love watching pictures in magazines that looks nice!!! super sharp photos, the color is beautifully paced, face portrait with a blurred background, waterfall with a seemingly very soft like cotton or photograph birds being shot. The picture quality like this average generated from SLR cameras. So what it’s SLR? SLR is short for (Single Lens Reflex), a term that is quite complex to explain.

But the principle is the kind of camera images of objects which we peeked through the lens. This large black camera is certainly not going to fit in your pocket and the price is quite expensive.

But in terms of quality, this camera producing a cool picture in magazines or giant advertisements on the road. Once turned on you can simply take a picture, there is no shutter lag, and capable of recording 3 photos in 1 second, and satisfying manual controls for almost all shooting parameters, and can used shooting thousands of photos without running out of batteries.

This camera has made many people crazy about photography, have a distinctive sound when you pressed the shutter (for super zoom compact cameras and is usually accompanied by sound fake), and feels solid and tough when held.

You can change the lenses as needed, from a macro lens which you can photograph the eyes of insects to super telephoto lens so you can take pictures of acne on the face of your friends from a distance of 10 meters.

But before you start smitten with SLR cameras and began to dream or even buy it, we suggest you read the things to consider before buying a digital SLR camera.

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Understanding the Auto and Scene Modes in Digital Cameras

September 8th, 2011

This article gives an overview outline and characteristics of operation of the auto and scene modes on your digital camera (an average pocket camera and SLR beginners always include both this mode). Auto mode, it’s been pretty reliable to simply generate the correct photo.

Auto mode and scene modes most widely used:

  1. Auto mode (A) No need any clarification, in essence, we entrust the selection of the overall setting (shutter-aperture-ISO, White Balance & Flash if any) of the brain at the camera. The camera will attempt to guess the characteristics of all objects within the frame and the light conditions and then determine all the quantities above settings.
  2. Portrait mode (usually denoted by the icon with a female head) The camera will select a narrow DOF (smallest aperture number) so that the object in the photograph will be isolated from the background, so space will be focusing only on the subject only while the background is blurred.
  3. Macro mode (flower icon usually denoted by). This mode is necessary when we want to take photos of small objects at close range (close-up). With this mode, we can hold the tip of the lens in close (usually between 2-8 cm from the object) so that the slightest thing can be quite large and detailed.
  4. Sport mode (usually denoted by the icon of running) mode is designed to freeze the motion. In this mode, the camera will reduce the shutter speed as small as possible so that when the target subject is moving images produced will remain sharp.
  5. Landscape mode (usually denoted by the icon of the mountain). This mode is the opposite of portrait mode. The camera will use a number of possible apertures, so that the focal plane image (Depth of Field – DOF) can be as large as possible.
  6. Night mode (denoted with a star icon or a month). This mode is designed to work in poor lighting conditions, both at night and we are in a darkened room. The camera will increase ISO so that even in dim conditions the sensor is still able to catch the light very well, this mode is also trying to make a longer shutter speed so that the image is not too vague and usually is automatically built camera flash will come on.
  7. Beach mode/Snow White Balancing his exposure to snow or sand beach not lose details and also not too pale by increasing exposure. White balance is set in the sun.
  8. Fireworks mode without flash, the shutter speed is set fair amount of time to record the movement of spark fireworks properly. This mode should be balanced by using a tool to stabilize the camera so as not to shake, such as a tripod.
  9. Panorama mode – capture sequence of images that will be merged as a panorama.

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