Cameras for Idiots Like Me
Just a little page here to help with remembering the basics of using film cameras for the people that tend to get a little air headed and intimidated when it comes to getting behind a camera. It's not only using a camera itself that can be challenging but knowing how to use it to it's most effective potential can also be perplexing. Technical Basics of Cameras Digital films cameras have a standard of 35mm frame-sensor, known as full frame but this can differ between camera types. Frame sensors basically determine the quality of the image captured, so for bigger frame sensors imagine it as being able to stretch the image out onto a bigger screen without losing much or any of the high resolution. The light capturing cavities that lie on a frame sensor are known as 'photosites' and a camera will transform these photosites into individual pixels- so a 24 megapixel camera will have 24 million photosites. This means that sensor size also impacts a cameras low-light perform...