Photography – Understanding How Image Stabilizing Lenses Work

... rendered as a blur unless you capture it at 1/500th of a second.

Do you need IS or VR lenses to improve your photography? This one is fairly easy to answer. If you regularly find yourself shooting at speeds less than 1/250th of a second ...

Nikon D5000 Review

Nikon D60 Sensor • 12.3 million effective pixels • 23.6 x 15.8 ...

Photography – Understanding Film Vs Digital Cameras

... form or another for more than 150 years. But due to the rapidly growing popularity of digital cameras, newcomers to photography are sometimes surprised to discover that film is still being manufactured and sold for all-purpose photography. Once their ...

Sony Alpha DSLR-A850 Review

MP resolution but also came with a maximum ISO of 25,600, live view and ...

Pentax K-x – taking shots at Nikon and Canon

Pentax K-x: Background I’d really looked forward to getting my hands on this camera. The ...

High Speed Sync

If you have read our previous post titled Understanding Flash Sync Speed, you probably know ...

Photography: Capturing night photographs – Part 1

... challenges that the shorter nights give us, the chance to develop our skills and add a new facet to our hobby; night photography.

Admittedly to achieve the best results in night photography, (as with most things) it is best to have the best ...

Basic Digital Photography: Getting the Light Source Right

... camera and flash are not of the same brand.

There are two primary types of lighting used in photography. A hard light is created from a single, bright source of light and it produces shadows, highlights and pronounced contrast in ...

5 Materials And Technologies That Just Might Eliminate Digital Camera Shutter Delay

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Better Photography – Using Your Built-in Flash

... dark or underexposed. Your camera's manual should tell you what the maximum subject distance is for flash photography is. In small cameras it is typically 12-15 feet.

It is often expressed as a range of distances rather than a single ...