Tags: photography, projects, studying
Canon 400D arrived
As I have mentioned before I have planned to get a better camera. My simple automatic SONY camera was very good in taking nice pictures but there was not that much fun in that process. It is just a simple point & shoot camera.
Sooooo here comes the fun
I bought CANON 400D with 2 pairs of lenses, 18-50 and 55-200. All together with 4 gig memory card. That means no more 1 meg pictures because of luck of space. From now on there will be only 10 meg RAW images.
Why did I chose this camera?
My knowledge about DSLR is very close to zero but I have done some research. This camera is one the of the best selling and one of the most popular on flickr and what more two of my friends have recommended it to me.
Learning process
There is a huge field in from of me and that is learning all about manual settings. The manual has about 180 pages so that should be good starting point. But after that I will definitely need more information in form of book or web site.
If you are asking where I will find the time to learn about manual web camera settings that is the question I do not really know the answer. Let’s see. Life is long.
So if you know about any good sources of information for DSLR beginners please drop me a link below.
Comments
I do know a little about f-stops so if you want a short tutorial…f-22 is like a pinhole so the images are sharp, there is a great depth of field like in Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles. Because everything is in focus the camera has not picked out anything leaving it to the eye. However if you choose f5.6 the hole is bigger and your subject should be in focus but not all of the background. So the higher the f-stop the smaller the hole. That also means less light. In old photography you would need a lot of light for f-22. So there was always a balance between the light needed and the effect. In a romantic scene you may want only the Close-Up: the actress’s eyes to be in focus. You need f-1.6 or f 2. But because there is a lot of light you might need a filter for the lens to “think” there is less light. And then you can set the f-stop to get exactly the focus effect you want.