The camera tripod. What to look for when selecting a camera tripod. The sole purpose of a camera tripod is to stabilize the camera. So are the expensive camera tripods any better than the cheap camera tripods? Many professionals would argue that, most cheap camera tripods don’t do their job; that is [...]
Wildlife Photography - A Primer
By Marv Binegar
Alaska Brown Bear
Nikon F4s, Nikkor 400mm/3.5, Fujichrome 100
While hiking the trail to Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park, I heard what sounded like an Olympic sprinter in bedroom slippers behind me. I managed to get a few feet off the trail before a large brown bear with a salmon [...]
Most adjustable cameras are quite similar. The camera in these pictures, a Nikon FE, is fairly typical. You should be able to use these pictures to find the controls on your camera however, we will also use a typical “Point and Shoot” camera in a few of the illustrations. Their controls are quite similar [...]
Photographic film (and paper) is basically a gelatin-like emulsion - which is loaded with silver salts (that are light sensitive) - on an acetate base.
This information will also prove useful for digital camera users. The only real difference is that digital uses a light sensitive chip instead of light sensitive film so there [...]
Lenses: aperture and shutter settings
Lenses come in different “focal lengths”
Here’s what five different lenses sees through your view finder:
28mm
50mm normal
100mm med. telphoto
200mm Telephoto
400mm Telephoto
All shots were taken from the exact same spot with the same camera body.
I simply doubled the focal length (from LEFT to RIGHT) and used the same exposure (f16 @ 1/500 using [...]
