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Camera Functions
Using Your Digital Camera
Question Numbers Listed in Green (50)
Answers Listed in Orange
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Shutter Button 1
Pressing the shutter button down halfway focuses the camera’s lens and holding it will lock the focus at that distance.
Doing this also displays the current aperture and shutter speed, and gives you a warning if the photo will be over/underexposed or blurry (something will typically blink or flash red, often an ap/ss number).
In AUTO FOCUS, your camera will choose from a number of focal frames (rectangles).
MANUAL FOCUS mode allows YOU to control the focusing, with either a lens ring, or buttons.
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Focal Frames
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Focusing Modes
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Macro Mode 2
MACRO MODE is used for taking close ups, it allows you to focus on objects that are closer to the lens than normal focus mode will allow.
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Aperture 3
Large Small
Large
Small
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Apertures
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Aperture 4, 5, 6
An APERTURE is an adjustable opening in a camera’s lens. It controls the amount of light that passes through the lens,
and functions in much the same way as the pupil of an eye. Bigger opening = more light Smaller opening = less light Aperture size controls DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF), the amount
of the picture, from foreground to background, that is in focus. Large apertures (small numbers) = shallow DOF Small apertures (large numbers) = large DOF
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Aperture 7, 8 Typical range = f/1.4 - f/22 1.4 (large), 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22 (small) large aperture like 1.4 = shallow DOF small aperture like 22 = large DOF Expressed as a ratio of the diameter of the aperture to the camera’s focal
length Apertures are called f-stops, f stands for focal ratio With a typical “half stop” camera, one f-stop change let’s in half or double
the amount of light When expressed as a fraction f = 1 f/4 = 1/4 The f or 1 is commonly dropped for simplicity
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Aperture Sizes
Smaller numbers = larger aperturesLarger numbers = smaller apertures
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Depth of Field 9, 10, 12 Short for “the
depth of the field of focus” refers to how much of a photo from foreground to background is in focus.
Smaller Aperture f/11= Larger DOF
Background more in focus
Large Aperture f/2.0= Shallow DOF
Background out of focus
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Shallow DOF 10
Blurriness due to a shallow DOF can also occur in the foreground depending on where you focus!
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Large Depth of Field 11, 13
Everything is in focus from foreground to background.
Good for landscapes
Small aperture f/16 or f/22
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Depth of Field14
Shallow DOF
Large DOF
DOF is determined by 3 factors:
1. Aperture 2. Distance from subject
(the closer you are, the shallower the DOF)
3. Camera’s focal length (longer lens = shallower DOF)
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Shutter Speed 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Shutter speed controls the amount of TIME that light is allowed to enter the camera
Measured in units of TIME, seconds, fractions of a second, or even minutes.
Typical range = 30” to 1/2000 2” (super slow),1”, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/30 (slow), 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500
(fast), 1/1000, 1/2000 (super fast) One stop let’s in half or double the amount of light with a typical “half stop”
camera (same as aperture) Shutter speed controls the appearance of motion. SLOW speeds might blur
a moving subject. FAST speeds will stop the action.
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Shutter Speed 18,19, 20, 21
Slow shutter speed,1/3 second to BLUR
the motion
Fast shutter speed,1/800 of second
to STOP the action
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Shutter Speed
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Shutter Speed
Fast Medium Slow (frozen) (some blur) (blurry)
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Warning, shutter speed is too slow! 22
Your picture will be blurry because even the subtlemovement of the camera in YOUR hands will be recorded.
Typically occurs at less than 1/60 sec with a 50mm lens SLR, but digital cameras now have IS or image stabilization features that counteract the effects of camera shake allowing you to take clear pictures at slower speeds.
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Equivalent Exposure 23
Apertures
1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22
Shutter Speeds
1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000
Move right to choose a smaller aperture
Move left an equal number of stops to choose a slower shutter speed
and maintain correct exposure
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Shooting Modes
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Shooting Modes 24-33
Av or A = aperture value, or aperture priority mode, allows you to select the aperture to control DOF, camera selects shutter speed.
Tv, T or S = time value, or shutter priority mode, allows you to adjust shutter speed to control the appearance of motion, camera selects aperture.
Landscape = small aperture for large DOF Portrait = large aperture for shallow DOF Action = fast shutter speed to stop action Others?
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Mode Selector Dial
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Exposure Compensation 34
Darker -2 _ _ 1_ _ 0 _ _ 2 _ _ +2 Lighter
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Exposure compensation (EV +/-) is a quick way to increase or decrease the amount of light entering the camera 1-2 stops in order to achieve correct exposure. It makes the photo appear lighter or darker on your LCD screen.
Use it to fix an under or overexposed photo while you’re “in the field” taking pictures. It’s always better to get correct exposure with your camera than to correct it with editing software.
Exposure Compensation 35
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Exposure Compensation 35, 36
Example: When taking pictures of a bright snowy scene the camera may “squint” and underexpose the photo resulting in gray snow.
To COMPENSATE, increase (+) the exposure compensation value (let in more light) until the snow is white again. You are essentially “overexposing” the photo on purpose.
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Exposure Compensation
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The Digital Advantage
Digital photographers have the advantage of instantaneous feedback, i.e. they can preview their pictures on the camera, allowing them to compensate for incorrect exposure while shooting in the field.
Traditional film photographers have to wait until their photos are developed to see if they turn out. Because of this they often use to use a technique called BRACKETTING, whereby they take 3 different exposures of the same scene (normal, over, under) and hope one turns out correct!
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Resolution 37
RESOLUTION = size of the image (in pixels) 3000 x 2000 pixels = 6,000,000 pixels or 6 megapixels. Higher resolution = ability to make larger prints. 5 megapixels = minimum for a decent 8” x 10” print. ,
without appearing “pixelated” The average photographer has no need for an 18
megapixel camera unless they plan on making very large prints (posters).
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Compression 38
COMPRESSION = image quality Affects file size measured in megabytes. When a digital photo file is COMPRESSED less
information about the color and value of each pixel in the photograph is being stored, therefore…
Higher compression = lower quality Lower compression = higher quality RAW are completely uncompressed = highest quality.
Very large & generally used only by professionals.
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Resolution + Compresson 39
Higher resolution + lower compression = fewer pictures but higher quality.
Lower resolution + higher compression = more pictures but lower quality.
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ISO 40, 42, 43, 44 ISO speed controls the sensitivity of your camera’s sensor (charge coupled device)
or film to light ISO = International Organization for Standardization 100 (slow/low), 200, 400, 800, 1600 (fast/high) Fast ISO = high sensitivity/fast exposure Slow ISO = low sensitivity/slow exposure HIGH ISO BENEFIT: allows use of faster shutter speeds in lower light conditions.
Used for action photos. HIGH ISO DRAWBACK: more digital noise. LOW ISO BENEFIT: Minimal noise for highest quality photos. Used for landscape
photos. LOW ISO DRAWBACK: requires longer exposure time.
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ISO options on a digital camera
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Film with ISO 400
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Digital Noise
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Noise v.s. ISO 42
As ISO increases so does digital noise : (
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Histogram 45
A histogram is a graph that displays the relative distribution of shadows, midtones, and highlights in a photo.
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Histograms…45-48
Shadows
…are useful for helping you determine whether a photo is under or over exposed…
…or if has effective contrast (a good range of lights and darks).
Midtones (grays) Highlights
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Histograms
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Light Metering Modes 49
Your camera’s light meter measures the amount of light entering the lens in order to calculate correct exposure (this allows the camera to select a correct aperture/shutter speed combination).
You can change which part of the frame your camera uses for calculating exposure by choosing different metering modes.
EVALUATIVE: default mode (auto metering) camera calculates exposure based on a variety of lighting variables.
PARTIAL: meters from center of the frame, useful when there are bright/dark areas around the edge of the frame.
SPOT: meters from a small spot in the center of the frame, effective for high contrast scenes where background is much brighter or darker than the subject.
CENTER-WEIGHTED AVERAGE: priority given to center of frame, then averaged for whole scene.
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Spot Metering 49
If you were to take a picture of a high contrast scene like the moon, where the subject is bright and the background is dark (or vice versa), spot metering might be a good choice to bring out more detail in the subject.
Because the “spot” is typically at the center of the frame, you will need to position the moon in the center while holding the shutter button down half way. Then you can position the moon where you want in the frame and press the button down all the way to take the photo.
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Spot Metering 49
A picture of the moon with a dark night sky will typically turn out with the moon being overexposed (left), because the camera meters off the entire scene and lets too much light in.
By spot metering, you can expose for only the subject (the moon) and bring out some of the detail in its surface.
A tripod is necessary to avoid blurriness due to slow shutter speed.
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White Balance 50
Changing your WHITE BALANCE mode allows you to remove unrealistic color casts, so that objects that appear white to your eyes are rendered white in your photos.
Different light sources produce different color casts: SUNLIGHT (neutral/white)
FLUORESCENT (green)
INCANDESCENT or TUNGSTEN (warm orange/yellow)
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White Balance Modes
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White Balance
For example: If you’re taking a photo in a typical school classroom with fluorescent lights…
…switch the white balance mode to fluorescent, so the white objects in the photo will look white and the rest of the colors will also look more natural
Fluorescent lights tend to produce a greenish color cast
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White Mode Comparison
All of these photos were taken near the window of a sunlit room. The different white balance modes account for the different color casts.
Notice that the incandescent mode adds blue, this is to compensate for the warm yellow/orange light incandescent or tungsten bulbs emit.
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To Flash or Not to Flash?
Due to the bright/harsh light a flash emits, it often makes faces appear too bright while the background remains dark, creating an uneven exposure.Using a flash is preferable to a blurry photo, so if it’s dark enough that your camera gives its shake warning, use the flash. Professional photographers often use a flash with various methods for diffusing the light, or bouncing it off reflective surfaces so the result is not so harsh.