- Mirror system inside camera lets you preview through the viewfinder the same image that is being captured on film
- It comes with detachable lenses
- Prime lenses: only one focal length
- Zoom lenses: variable focal lengths
- Kit lens: a basic lens that comes with a camera body in a “kit”
- Image sensor is towards the back of the camera, with the focal length and nodal point at the front.
- Fisheye or wide-angle focal length (17mm) is used for architecture or landscape
- Normal focal length – how we see (50mm) is used for street or documentary
- Medium Telephoto focal length (100mm) is used for Portraiture
- Telephoto focal length (200mm – 300mm) is used for sport, birds, and wildlife
- The smaller the focal length, the closer, or more zoomed in, the subject
- International Organization for Standards: ISO – number that describes films sensitivity to light
. ASA – describe sensitivity of digital sensors in digital cameras
- HIGH ISO value means the sensor will be MORE sensitive to light
- More available light = lower ISO; less available light = higher ISO
- Lowest ISO you can to reduce grain/ noise
- Shutter speed: how long the shutter is open
- Shutter speed should be double your frame rate
- Aperture; fraction: focal length divided by lens diameter – smaller number
- represents a larger opening
- Larger aperture, shallower depth of field
- Full Auto (green rectangle) – camera does EVERYTHING for you
- . CA (Creative Auto) – camera does almost everything BUT lets you choose brightness, depth of field, picture style by pressing the Q button
- P (Program) – camera set shutter speed and aperture, but you choose ISO, AF/F, white balance; Tv (Shutter Speed priority) – you choose shutter speed. camera chooses appropriate aperture
- Av (Aperture priority) – you choose aperture, camera chooses appropriate shutter speed. M (manual) – you choose everything
- Larger aperture, shallower depth of field
- Full Auto (green rectangle) – camera does EVERYTHING for you
- CA (Creative Auto) – camera does almost everything BUT lets you choose brightness, depth of field, picture style by pressing the Q button
- P (Program) – camera set shutter speed and aperture, but you choose ISO, AF/F, white balance; Tv (Shutter Speed priority) – you choose shutter speed, camera chooses appropriate aperture
- Av (Aperture priority) – you choose aperture, camera chooses appropriate shutter speed: M (manual) – you choose everything
- A-Dep (Automatic depth of field) – camera chooses aperture, shutter speed combo to get best DOF.