Important Accessories for Your SLR Camera

So, exactly what the hell accessories most useful (and also the most popular) for owners of SLR? The following types of accessories for you:

Camera bags

Various types of camera bags available in the market, just select the appropriate tastes: from the backpack, belt, and sling-slide (sideways) to a similar suitcase. What is clear here serves a camera bag so we could keep the camera and lens that we have had for traveling safely. Cleaning Kit

To keep the exterior condition of the lens and camera to keep it clean, you need a lap microfibers and special cleaning fluid. Especially for the lens, as much as you may protect the lens with UV filter (see filter below), usually to just use a lens blower. Cleaning kit can be purchased at camera stores.

Tripod

Tripod, monopod, gorilla pod, whatever its function is to help you take sharp photos at shutter to take long exposures. Compared to other types, a tripod is still the most popular, because it is relatively more reliable and resilient.

External Flash

External flash will drastically improve the quality of your images when compared to the default when you use a flash attached to the SLR camera. Have a far greater power, the ability to control a much more flexible, and we can set the direction of illumination that falls into objects more easily.

Filter

Filters are essential accessories that enough for SLR systems. Of the various types of filters, there are 3 types that you consider worthy to be purchased:

  • Protection Filter (UV Filter or Neutral) – in fact the function is to protect your lens, these filters are relatively inexpensive so you will be ‘sincere’ make it a bumper mounted in front of the lens. Let that come into contact with the air filter dirty-hands splashing water and not a lens that costs can be many times more expensive.
  • Polarization Filter – change the sky so it looks more ‘in’, eliminating reflections in the water (or glass), so that the trees looked greener. Simply put it is like sunglasses for your lens.
  • Filter ND (Neutral Density) – reduce the amount of light entering your camera. If you want to produce photo waterfall that looks like cotton (long shutter) while it was still too late, then you will need a ND filter so that light can be reduced.

Shutter Release

Besides the tripod, additional accessories that will enhance the sharpness of your photo are the shutter release. With the shutter release, we do not need to squeeze the shutter button on the camera, just use the shutter release so that you can activate the shutter from a distance.

Vertical Grip (VG)

If you start taking pictures while the camera is more intensively you do not have a vertical grip features of nature to, buy additional vertical grip. Besides being very helpful when shooting in portrait orientation (vertical), VG also serves as a backup battery, so no need to worry about running out of batteries.