Do you know what sun-spots are? Forget technically, but to the human eye they look like dark dark tiny spots on the sun. Sensor spots/dust have a similar feel on the image. Have you ever come across a set of images that have a tiny out of focus black dot repeated at the same…
The Modern day DSLR come with some astonishing figures in terms of how fast they can click. For those of you who are unaware about your cameras capabilities, here is what you want to look for. There are two concepts that you need to understand in-order to calculate the speed at which your camera can…
Let’s assume that you have a camera which claims that it has 51 focus points. You attach a 300 f/2.8 on it and you can select any of the 51 focus points. So far so good. Next you go to shoot some birds and choose to a lens like the 500 f/4. Now it seems…
There are a lot of features in your camera that we do not use often and don’t know much about. Today we talk about ‘Mirror Lock-up’. Did you know that your camera comes with a feature named mirror lock-up? So lets see how does one reach this feature and what does it do… Enabling Mirror Lockup: Nikon…
Graphs and numbers sometimes can be a little intimidating. Histogram is one graph that is anything but that. If I can understand it, I’m sure most people can. Let me try and explain what I understand of the histogram - To me it is : “A graph that plots the luminosity of each pixel on my…
Todays blog post covers two topics. One for people just starting off with photography and the second for the more experienced ones. So let’s start with the basics first and then look at advanced ways of utilizing your lens memory (ya the lens has some memory functions as well). Basics : Why Does My Camera…
One of the most interesting features of your camera is controlled by this button which generally sits near where your right thumb would be when clicking. Its called the Auto-Exposure lock by Nikon and is denoted by a * button in Canon. It can lock 2 things, exposure and focus. In this part of the…
Imagine you are on the field and clicking something when suddenly the camera hangs. It just stops responding. Looks like a piece of stone and definitely behaves like one. What do you do? Well, firstly don’t panic. There are a couple of things that you could try before calling it a day Attempt 1 :…