From the mountains of feedback that Digital Photography School generates there appears to be a skill division in visitors: there are those who are well up in digital imaging and those who could politely be described as ‘well down’. For the ‘well down’ Digital Compact Cameras: Great Photos Every Time by Arnold Wilson is a [...]
Virtually all point and shoot digital cameras are equipped with zoom lenses, mostly with 3X zooms and then there are the crazy beasts with even longer zoom ranges like 10X, 20X or even more. The 3X zooms are usually set up so you get a moderately wide angle view at the smallest focal length, balanced [...]
I get to see an awful lot of digital cameras and I get to read a heap of instruction books and PDF files purporting to explain the workings of the cameras. And all are inadequate! Third party manuals like this one from Simon Stafford fill an essential need in the whole business. This Nikon D300 [...]
Most digital cameras have zoom lenses. These effectively give you a wide angle and a telephoto lens, with all the variable sizes in between. While the widest setting of these zooms captures a view that is more expansive than the ‘normal’ view of the human eye, they’re often not much wider! The eye’s viewing angle [...]
Let’s trigger a stick of gelignite under our digital images. And maybe explode some myths. You’ve got a digital camera. Perhaps you’ve got an inkjet printer – one with great photo quality reproduction. Now you’re ambitions are beginning to take wings and you want to get into print with your images. The razzle with digital [...]
Got your bits mixed up with your bytes? Is a halftone less than a semi-quaver? Computer terms can often be a mess of confusing jargon. Lets’ try to make it easy with some photography definitions and the start of a glossary. Feel free to let us know what other terms that you’d like covered in [...]
On its launch the Nikon D90 caused something of a stir with its near-HD movie capture mode … more of that later I worked with the D90 with the f3.5/18-105mm VR-stabilised kit lens fitted and at no time found the kilo plus weight a bit of a burden. Main features: 7.6 cm LCD screen plus [...]
Mastering High Dynamic Range Photography This book naturally follows on Michael Freeman’s other book on night and low light photography, but I have to admit that I approached it — and the subject of HDR — with quite a degree of apprehension. For me the whole topic of HDR and the results it produces are, [...]
What is it with these bytes? And what about the bits? Are you up with the bits and bytes? It’s estimated that, each year more than 80 billion plus photographs are taken worldwide; if they were all digital you’d need more than 400 Petabytes (PB) of storage. A Petabyte is about half the content of [...]
Buyers are not silly: you buy an inkjet printer for $60, happily use it, drain the original inks, then head back to the store for refills, only to find the replacement cartridges cost more than the printer! And we can count: retail stores often charge as low as 10 cents each for happy snap 10x15cm [...]
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