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Keeping Your Camera Current
A little camera maintenance goes a long way – consider it a small time investment to ensure you are ready to take advantage of every photo opportunity that crosses your path. For example, when was …
Judge a book through its cover with this terahertz camera setup
What do you do if you want to peek inside a book, but you're pretty sure it'll crumble into dust if you even crack the cover a little bit? Well, nothing:..
Learn How To Use A DSLR Camera, With This Nifty Web Tool
Photography Mapped is for anyone intimidated by the knobs, dials, and settings on DSLR cameras.
Camera Techniques in SOLIDWORKS Visualize
Why Render in SOLIDWORKS Visualize? Minimize effort and maximize impact; it’s what we’re all aiming for, isn’t it? We all want to expend as little effort a
The camera that taught me how to see the world
Commentary: My dad's vintage twin-lens reflex camera was a stolid and imposing box, but it also held mysteries.
13 Signs You Were Born With A Camera In Your Hand
"Take my picture, Hollywood!" Explore and capture the world with Canon's breathtaking lens offerings.
Do you know what the most useful button on your camera is?
Today I would like to talk about one of the most useful buttons on a digital camera. In fact, it may be the single most useful feature next to the shutter button itself. This all-important button activates a setting known as exposure compensation. As the name implies, this setting allows you to compensate for an improper exposure. Essentially you can force the camera to make an image lighter or darker if your quick review of the screen shows that the exposure is off…
10 Tips for Saving Your Camera
Camera damage is devastating! If you are like me you go everywhere with a camera. I would be lost without it. The one time I did damage a camera it cost me a lot of money and I was without … Continue reading →
How the Lytro Camera Works
The Lytro camera has attracted attention for its ability to let viewers focus on different aspects of a photo after it has been taken. How is the device different from traditional cameras, and how does it operate?
Learn to Read Your Camera Lens
Pretty Presets and Mom & Camera have put together another simple tip sheet about understanding camera lenses so you can get the most out of them.
Some Mistakes That I Recommend You Make Behind the Camera
I can’t help but notice all those articles proclaiming mistakes we should try to avoid in order to become a better photographer. Admittedly, I have issues
...What Camera Should I Use to Get Great Photos?
…What Camera Should I Use to Get Great Photos? We get this question asked all the time. This is a simple question but also a difficult question. Easy Answer: The ...
5 Tips For Better Photography With Any Camera
Blaming your camera gear for mistakes is a real no no in photography. In reality, a skilled photographer will be able to take great photos with any camera at their disposal and a little planning. So what can you do to get great shots with sub-standard gear? You can use the same elements in photography as you would be when shooting with a DSLR. Composition No matter what camera you are using, if your composition is bad, there won’t be a good picture…
Is There a Wrong Way to Hold a Camera?
I am a pretty observant guy...I notice certain things about people and how they do things. I guess it is just the curiosity in me that is fascinated by how differently people do certain things. Something that I always get a kick out of is how different people hold their camera. Some professional photographers may argue that there is a proper way or proper technique when holding your camera. I say that how you hold ...
How to Choose a Digital Camera
Digital cameras are trying hard to push back against the growth of smartphone photography. But few decisions are more complex than picking out the right digital camera among hundreds.
This is Why Camera Ergonomics Are Important
Let’s have a virtual hands up. Who has bought a camera over the internet based on its reviews without ever physically trying it? I bet there are a few of us, myself included. There will be a few amongst us that will have caught a dose of buyer regret, and probably not because of the camera’s image quality but because of the way it handled, it’s ergonomics. Ergonomics is the science of man/machine interactions, but to you and I it just means, does…
What Your Camera Can't See
For all the incredible technology in cameras, there is one missing element that will remain missing perhaps forever. Find out what your camera can't see.
How to Protect Yourself Against Camera Gear Theft as a Photographer
In case you don't know it, cameras and lenses are prime theft targets. You may never think it's going to happen to you, but almost every day I hear from so
How to Tether Your Camera
An in-depth explanation of our tethered DSLR workstation that we use in the portrait studio. Do you tether your camera? Feel free to leave us any questions/c...
What makes camera phone pictures look good, and what doesn't
Not all camera phones are created equal - some of them can take pictures of quality close to that of dedicated point-and-shoot cameras, while others don't even come close. But what are the factors that the quality of a camera phone's images really depends on? Read along...
This Is How Your DSLR Camera Actually Works
Learn about the technology inside of a digital SLR camera and why it's long been the preferred tool of choice for the pros.
