Choosing a memory card is actually an easy task. All you have to do is to follow a few easy steps: 1. Memory card type: To find out what type of memory card does your camera support, all you have to do is to look into camera specifications. Nowadays there are a lot of memory [...]
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Lesson 7: ISO
October 17th, 2009 
Andrei Digital cameras have an ISO rating indicating their level of sensitivity to light. The normal setting for most cameras is ISO 100, although some go as low as ISO 50. The sensitivities can be increased to 200, 400, 800, or even 3,200. High-end digital SLRs also allow some intermediary values. When increasing the sensitivity, the [...]
Lesson 6: Optical vs. Digital Zoom
October 14th, 2009 Andrei When buying a digital camera one of the factors that you will be looking at is the power of the zoom function. People who are not very experienced in this field are starting to be a little mislead because manufacturers are often claiming a zoom function called digital zoom, or they add this zoom to [...]
Lesson 5: Optical Zoom
October 13th, 2009 Andrei To define optical zoom, first I’ll have to briefly explain you what is focal length (or focal distance). If you look on the lenses of any decent camera you’ll see written there something like this: 5.8 – 34.8mm (or any other pair of values like that). This is the focal length specification and it is [...]
Lesson 4: Megapixels
October 7th, 2009 Andrei Now you have an idea about the differences between point and shoot digital cameras and DSLRs and you know which one is best for you. The next step is to actually buy the camera. In the next few lessons I will explain to you a couple of very important technical aspects that are essentials in [...]
Before we start
September 28th, 2009 Andrei Hello everybody! So here it is the first post of a new blog about photography! Ok, ok, I already hear you all asking me: “What could be new about this blog? There are thousands of them out there! How can it bring something new to us?” I’m not pretending that the informations from this blog [...]
