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After last week’s chat about smartphones and compacts, let’s move on to the more serious camera types – Mirrorless and DSLRs. These are cameras which are bigger, generally

Let’s talk about the different types of camera out there. There’s an almost infinite variety of cameras you can buy, so for obvious reasons, in this beginners guide,

So, let’s start to bring things together. Although we’ve got quite complex, we still can’t escape the fact that exposure is made up of 3 components, that the

I’ve mentioned exposure modes in passing several times by now, but it’s time to talk about the different modes your camera uses. They’re all just different ways of

In this post I want to talk about what happens when your exposure meter gets things wrong, which sadly is quite a lot of the time! To get

Everyone loves the fact that the second you’ve taken a shot with a digital camera, you can instantly view it on the screen at the back.  It’s great

OK, that’s all the foundations laid, now how do we actually know what exposure to start with, before we start getting concerned with what creative choices we want

Thus far we’ve taken for granted that our shot looks OK, and that we’ve got the “right” exposure – all we’ve done is play with the variables. We’re

Sensitivity and ISO will be a bit trickier to explain than aperture and shutter speed, as there’s no convenient mechanical way I can show what it is and

The next facet of exposure to talk you through is shutter speed. In different cameras this can be a slightly different thing, but in practice the shutter is