Hot Shoe refers to a clip like primary mechanical system on cameras to fit accessories like external flash units, rangefinder or spirit levels. Usually Hot Shoe is provided in mid range Compact Digital Camera and all DSLR camera. Technical details of Hot Shoe Originally Hot Shoe equipped on Film SLR cameras had no electrical or electronic features and known as cold shoe. Today a … [Read more...]
Digital Photography
Digital Photography covers all the techniques like Digital Camera like DSLR, Digital Rangefinder to obtain a picture through the use of an electronic sensor as well as processing techniques.
Crop Factor or Form Factor in Digital Photography
Crop Factor or form factor is a term used in photography . It gives diagonal length ratio between two formats.It is an important factor in Digital Photography. Previously we discussed about various image Sensor Size and Field of View. In case of Digital Photography, Crop Factor is more important and dependent on Sensor size than was in Film Photography. What is this Crop Factor actually is … [Read more...]
Viewfinder : Details of Optical Viewfinder of a Camera
Viewfinder is the most important and possibly the most correct way to determine the composition of a Photo that to be taken. The optics of Viewfinder varies. We named the article as Details of Optical Viewfinder of a Camera as an article on Pentaprism Viewfinder has been published before, which is actually a component of viewfinder of a DSLR or Film SLR Camera. Brief general details of … [Read more...]
Exposure Compensation in Digital Photography
Exposure compensation is a term used in photographic technology and Exposure Compensation in Digital Photography is the process of consciously correcting the exposure value, which the automated metering of the digital camera wrongly calculated and made (or will probably make) image brighter or darker than the expected result. The unit of exposure compensation is exposure value (abbreviated as EV). … [Read more...]
Bridge Digital Camera : Camera in between DSLR and compact camera
Bridge Digital Camera has the properties of DSLR and compact Digital cameras combined in terms of finishing, quality and features. If you are a beginner or searching to buy a digital camera, before reading this article on Bridge Digital Camera, it might be helpful for you to read our in depth articles on Digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) and Compact Digital Camera. Bridge Digital Camera … [Read more...]
F-number in Digital Photography
F-number of a camera lens is the ratio of the focal length to the diameter the effective virtual or real opening which limits the incident light to camera. With a camera lens with an adjustable aperture the amount of light needed for correct exposure can be selected from Camera's control panel. The largest and smallest adjustable aperture could be set depends on the design of each … [Read more...]
Canon EF 50mm F/1.8 II : The Cheapest Canon Prime Lens
Canon EF 50mm F/1.8 II, also widely known as Nifty Fifty, is probably the cheapest Prime Lens from Canon and Canon EF 50mm F/1.8 is ruling over a decade. Canon EF 50mm F/1.8 is known as Nifty Fifty for several reasons, most of the beginners takes photography as fascination and investing on Prime Lens is quite expensive matter for them, Canon EF 50mm F/1.8 costs around $100, which is less than half … [Read more...]
Parallax in Photography
Parallax in Photography is defined as the apparent change in position of an object when the photographer moves his own position along with his camera. Parallax is an optical phenomenon and it is important in taking distant photographs. What is Parallax ? Parallax is defined as the angle between two straight lines from different locations to the same point ( of an object). This is … [Read more...]
Distortion in Photography
Distortion in Photography arises due to geometric aberrations of optical systems, which leads to a local change in the scale of imaging. Unlike noise in Digital Photography, modification Distortion in Photography is based on a change in magnification with increasing distance of the image from the optical axis. Distortion in Photography is therefore rotationally symmetric around a … [Read more...]
Angle of View in Photography
Angle of View in Photography referred to that angle in the given object space which is limited by the edges of the recording format. It is field of view for a camera. To denote Angle of View in Photography, some people interchangeably uses with field of view. But, field of view is for living creatures, not machines. As human and other living creature's vision is very complex, field of view can not … [Read more...]
Mode Dial or Setting Knob of Digital Camera
Mode Dial or Setting Knob of Digital Camera for changing the mode of operation of the camera is usually present in all DSLRs and most Compact Digital Cameras. In most cameras, Mode Dial or Setting Knob of Digital Camera is present on their upper parts and offers access to the manual mode, semi-automatic and automatic modes. Technical Details of Mode Dial or Setting Knob of Digital … [Read more...]