Tag: DSLR

Camera basics

The camera’s brain can average things out, at least most of the time, reasonably well. But what it can’t do is interpret the numbers and see potential for those numbers, working together, to produce a different look, or looks. It’s like asking an adding machine to write an essay.Joe Mcnally

Learning how to control my camera was one of the first basic steps to improving my photography. I get upset every time I see someone ( usually a suburban Mom ) with an expensive DSLR and huge zoom lens shooting with the camera in "Auto". They basically have an expensive point-n-shoot. Get yourself off auto.

Oh your drill must do great root canals.

A talk with Rob Hart, the photographer behind "Laid Off From the Sun-Times" | The Daily Dot (The Daily Dot)

A camera is just a tool. A carpenter using a hammer and me using a hammer are going to get different results. I can use a hammer but I don’t know how to make a table. For me it’s not about the camera, it’s about the skill and the storytelling ability.

Via a lesser photographer

I see so many people -- especially parents -- with DSLR cameras all set to "Auto". In my opinion, they've bought very expensive point-n-shoot cameras.

How many people come up to me and say, “Oh, your camera’s nice. I bet it takes great photos.” Yeah, it does. Because I’m using it. No one would say to a dentist, “Oh your drill must do great root canals.” Photojournalists aren’t replaceable. Photography isn’t about smarts, it’s about feeling and understanding emotions. Some reporters are really good at that, but most of them aren’t.

DSLRs are a dying breed – 3rd Gen Cameras are the Future

DSLRs are a dying breed – 3rd Gen Cameras are the Future | Stuck in Customs by Trey Ratcliff (Stuck in Customs)

These are the new line of cameras that don’t use the 20th-century technology of a mechanical mirror inside that flips up and down between photos. In a few years, we’ll all look back and smile, having fond memories of using these Da Vinci-esque mechanical devices. Charts of how cameras used to work with their flipping innards will look like some of Leonardo’s unrealized steampunk inventions.