Choosing The Right Camera and Settings

Choosing The Right Camera and Settings

Intro

- Learn about cameras & the various types of cameras in the market now

- Learn about their differences & unique features

- Learn about their components & how they each work

Camera Types

- Comparing still and video cameras

- Understanding the basic components of a camera

- Introducing the popular types of cameras: from smartphone cameras to mirrorless systems, DSLRs and medium format

- Understand the strength and weakness of each camera system, and the differences between the low end and high-end systems (processing power of the camera, speed in making setting changes, photo quality & resolution)

- Understand what are acquisition sensors & their sizes

Types of Lenses

- Understanding focal length; from the aspect of humans eyes focal length (50mm, wide-angle, tele)

- Specs of lenses (focal length, max aperture, min focal distance)

- Focal length & genre of photography (portrait, macro, landscape)

- Classification of lenses based on focal length & genre (portrait lenses, landscape lenses, macro lenses)

- Prime lenses vs zoom lenses

- What lens is suitable for you and the popular lenses you can buy

Understanding Cameras' Exposure Settings:

- Various ways you can control the 3 Exposure Parameter

- How the camera measures light and how to read the exposure meter

- What is ISO & what are the limitations & workarounds

- Aperture and how to work with the best values

- Shutter Speed & its effect on depicting motion & photo sharpness

Camera Settings:

- Photo quality & resolution

- Photo file format (jpg & raw)

- Exposure (shutter, aperture & ISO)

- Focusing (autofocus modes & focusing areas)

Color Settings Of Your Cameras:

- Understand how the camera handles colors

- Concept of color spaces

- Color profiles

- White Balance, Filter Color Filters & ABGM shifts

- Accuracy in colors & tone in photography

Cameras' Focusing Settings:

- What are Focusing Modes?

- What are Focusing Areas?

- What is the best Mode & Area combination?

Progressing Forward From This Course:

- Introduction to manual mode exposure

- Introduction to the compositional styles in Arts Of Seeing

- Introduce how post-processing works in photography

- Introduce another genre of photography, such as Portrait, Macro & Landscape

Understand cameras & settings before you start photography

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What you will learn

• Learn about cameras & the various types of cameras in the market now, their differences & unique features, their components & how they each work
• Camera Types
• Types of Lenses

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Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: Beyond Photography