Phone-cameras have come a long way. Sure, they can’t rival a proper camera, and I’m a little bemused and irritated when people take snapshots with their iPhone and immediately start calling themselves a “photographer” but there’s no denying that camphones can produce surprising results. My own cellphone is a now going-on seven years old...
Learn MoreBack in 2004 it was very difficult for me to take photos with a short depth of field. This was of course due to the crappy Nikon compact I was using, which I’ve mentioned earlier. Compacts are never very good at getting a short DoF due to the small optics and short ranges in them. This frustrated me since I (long before I even knew the expressions Depth of Field or...
Learn MoreIt’s pretty amazing how far we’ve come with digital cameras and the associated technology. I bought my first proper digital camera back in 2004. I didn’t have much money, and I bought a cheap compact camera – a Nikon Coolpix 3100 to be precise. It was a 3mpixel camera with virtually no manual settings – for example, ISO sensitivity was...
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