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Digital SLR Camera Shooting. SLR – Single Lens Reflex but digital Works in much the same way as analog Lens Mirror Viewfinder Pentaprism v . Pentamirror. Some key differences No film More settings Ability to immediately see results Ability to self-correct images Digital output.
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Digital SLR Camera Shooting • SLR – Single Lens Reflex but digital • Works in much the same way as analog • Lens • Mirror • Viewfinder • Pentaprismv. Pentamirror • Some key differences • No film • More settings • Ability to immediately see results • Ability to self-correct images • Digital output
Point-and-Shoot Modes Auto “Camera adjusts settings automatically to produce optimal results with “point-and-shoot” simplicity. Recommended for first-time users of digital cameras.” Canon Nikon Translation: “shoots on stupid”
Point-and-Shoot Modes Portrait • “Shoots portraits with background in soft focus.” • Shallow Depth of Field • Wide Aperture Canon Nikon
Point-and-Shoot Modes Landscape • “Preserve detail in landscape shots” • Deep Depth of Field • Small Aperture Canon Nikon
Point-and-Shoot Modes Close Up • “Take vivid close ups of flowers, insects and other small objects” • Very Shallow Depth of Field • Very Wide Aperture Canon Nikon
Point-and-Shoot Modes Sports • “Freeze motion for dynamic sports shots” • Fast shutter speed Cannon Nikon
Point-and-Shoot Modes Night Landscape • “Take landscape shots at night.” • Small aperture but not too short a shutter speed • Probably uses flash Nikon
Point-and-Shoot Modes Night portrait • “Shoots portraits against dimly lit backdrop” • Shallow Depth of Field, wide aperture • Probably uses flash Canon Nikon
Advanced (Exposure) Modes Shutter Priority / Time Variable • You control shutter speed, camera automatically adjusts aperture and tells you when you are too fast or too slow. Canon Nikon
Advanced (Exposure) Modes Aperture Priority / Aperture Variable • You control aperture, camera automatically adjusts shutter speed and tells you when you are too wide or too narrow. Canon Nikon
Advanced (Exposure) Modes Manual • You control shutter speed and aperture, camera tells you when it thinks you are wrong. Canon Nikon
Advanced (Exposure) Modes Programmed Auto • Camera chooses the shutter speed and aperture but you have the ability to change / bracket what the camera recommends. Canon Nikon
A note on A-DEP • Canon's auto depth of field (A-DEP) feature works by: • finding the nearest and furthest of all the autofocus points, • setting the camera's focusing distance to optimally position the depth of field between these nearest and furthest points, and • setting the aperture so that the edges of the depth of field extend to contain the nearest and furthest point. A-DEP’s biggest problem is that is uses all of the camera’s autofocus pints – which are quite often uncontrollably placed across the subject background. Canon has dropped A-DEP from it’s professional 1-series cameras because of complaints by users.