Understanding Your Camera

DSLR or SLR with a “D”. Well as a old school photographer, I still call it SLR. Lets first understand what is SLR, and why it is called so. SLR stand for “Single Lens Reflex”. When you look through the […]

What is lens? A Photographic Lens is an assembly of lens which helps camera to record image. A lens may be permanently attached to camera or interchangeable. Lenses are available in different focal length, aperture and other features. It is […]

Megapixel is a term used a lot by everyone now a day, but before we go into Megapixel, let’s understand Pixel first. Pixel is a word derived from Picture Elements. A pixel is a unit of programmable colors on a […]

When you press the button of the camera to take picture you hear a distinctive familiar sound which is nothing but the sound of the shutter movement. A shutter is a curtain in front of the camera sensor which remains […]

Aperture is one of the three components in Exposure Triangle.  Aperture is the opening of a lens’s diaphragm through which light passes to the sensor. When you press the shutter release button the aperture hole opens up and allow the […]

ISO or International Standards Organisation is basically the sensitivity of light of your sensor which results the exposure of your image. The ISO is measured in numbers typically starts with 100 and continues to be double till the time it […]

What is focus? Focus is concentrating so that we can see things sharper. If we lose concentration, we get confused and can’t see things properly. Same thing applies in Photography. An image that is completely sharp is considered to be […]

Every camera is equipped with an intelligence which is called metering. In some camera, it is controlled by the user, and in some it is fully automated. Metering in camera determine correct exposure. In DSLRs or in advanced compact cameras […]

White Balance is something often ignored by many photographers. However option for changing white balance is available in almost all the cameras, including mobile cameras. This is a very simple and one of the most important things to learn. The […]

The image quality is one of the critical factor which determine the output from your camera. There are many file format & quality in camera but the most common three are JPEG, TIFF and RAW. JPEG or JPE: Stands for […]