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Review: Canon Digital Rebel XT EOS 350D

Canon Digital Rebel XT EOS 350D 8MP Digital SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera Buy From Amazon.com One of several entry-level digital SLRs available, the Rebel XT was the first under-$1000 consumer-grade SLR on the market. It was also the first small body DSLR, which made it more comfortable in my hand than the (competitive) Nikon [...]

Buying a Digital Point-and-Shoot Camera

Buying a bad digital camera is not on anyone’s To-Do list. The purpose of this article is to show you how to buy one that suits your needs. While consumer magazines are a good place to start when shopping for one, they are no substitute for your own testing of the camera. Reviews can give [...]

How Cameras Work Part 6: ISO

This is part 6 of a 6 part series on getting to know your digital camera. Read part 5: Aperture Priority. So we’ve seen how aperture setting (also referred to as the “f-stop”) and shutter speed control the amount of light reaching the film (or digital sensor). A theoretical proper exposure requires the right combination [...]

How Cameras Work Part 5: Aperture Priority

This is part 5 of a 6 part series on getting to know your digital camera. Read part 4: Setting Proper Modes on Your Camera. In most cameras, the diameter of the image hole (aperture) is adjustable (either manually or automatically) with something called a diaphragm: iris diaphragm – a series of overlapping metal plates [...]

How Cameras Work Part 4: Setting Proper Modes on Your Camera

This is part 4 of a 6 part series on getting to know your digital camera. Read part 3: Pinhole Cameras. Based on what you now know about camera basics, lets get into how to properly expose the film/image sensor. See all those little icons around your camera’s main control button? They all attempt to [...]

How Cameras Work Part 3: Pinhole Cameras

This is part 3 of a 6 part series on getting to know your digital camera. Read part 2: What the Camera Makers Assume You Already Know. The pinhole camera is proof that fundamental principles do not change. Euclid demonstrated the image-forming possibilities of the pinhole in 300 B.C. In the 16th century, Leonardo da [...]

How Cameras Work Part 2: What the Camera Makers Assume You Already Know

This is part 2 of a 6 part series on getting to know your digital camera. Read part 1: Digital Cameras for the Impatient. If you bought the camera with the intent of being creative, you’ve probably already read the manual and figured it out. You can stop reading now and go get a cup [...]

How Cameras Work Part 1: Digital Cameras for the Impatient

The scenario: You just bought a cool digital camera, or received it as a gift. You’ve used it in the “auto” mode (because the instructions and controls are way complex) and have gotten less-than-stellar results. Did the ads lie? Is the printing machine at CVS screwed up? Did you screw up? Well, possibly yes to [...]

Does posting photos of strangers to your blog violate their privacy?

Is it ok to post your photos of strangers on your blog or on Flickr. Wired Magazine says go ahead. As long as there’s no “reasonable expectation of privacy” – meaning, they aren’t somewhere they’d never expect a camera to be – you should be ok in regards to privacy issues in most cases. That [...]

Tips for Buying a Digital Camera

So you want to buy a digital camera, and you don’t know where to begin. Well, based on my photographic experience– 25 years with film, three with digital- I shall present to you some major pitfalls along your path. This is just my opinion of course, but as Walter Cronkite said, everyone’s entitled to my [...]