Just about any digital camera has this info button or some variation of it. Shooting information is displayed on the monitor when this button is pushed. It’s all there! It’s typically used when reviewing photographs to see histograms, shutter speed, aperture and other camera settings. Modern digital cameras are truly amazing! There are so many [...]

Which shutter release mode you select determines how and when the camera shutter activates to capture the image. S (single frame): the camera takes one image each time the shutter release button is pushed all the way down. Use when you have plenty of time to compose your image with a subject which is relatively [...]

Focal Length is the measurement of the end of the lens to the film plane. Lenses come in different “focal lengths” and more and more you see mostly zoom lenses with a variable focal length (ie 18-55mm). A full extended zoom lens in this examples would be 55mm. Zoomed down the lens is 18mm.

To break it down simply, CCD stands for Charged Coupled Device. The CCD is the digital equivalent of film. The CCD is a type of sensor that is used to capture an image by taking the light and translating it into digital data. There are thousands of tiny little pixels that make up the surface [...]

Do I purchase the Nikon D5000 or Canon EOS Rebel T2i? The first things that stick out to me is the Canon T2i’s ability to record 1080p HD Video along with it’s 18MP sensor. I know we talk about how people can get too caught up in the megapixels of a camera, but 18 on [...]