Ed lives in the Philadelphia area and works as a clinical engineer in a local teaching hospital. He has been making photographs for the past 30 years. His early work- color landscape photography –has been shown in New York and Philadelphia galleries. His current work has been shown in New York, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. Buy a copy of his book, Stone Angels: A celebration of the Mourning Arts.
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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