Welcome to Digital vs Film Photography.

 Power, versatilitiy and stunning picture quality are the trademarks of the latest digital SLR cameras. Film is useful as well, black and white, infered, you must try it, its here for a long time. 

One thing is a must, save your photographs to cd, memory stick, floppy disk or anything before you do any retouching because if there's a problem you've still got the originals.

 These tools give you full control of your photography, in the basic, full automatic shooting modes. Most D-SLR can offer a point and shoot simplicity, that complete beginners can get wonderful results in most conditions. But if you delve a little deeper into the menus and controls you can get some fantastic photography to be proud of.

After all photography should be fun not hard work, and full of technical hurdles. Lets take a look at the digilal camera.
D-SLR cameras, generally speaking semi-pro and fully professional models have more knobs, buttons and switches, but nowadays even mid range cameras offer a wide feast of features.

One thing is a must, is read your manual, you have? Then read it again its really important trust me, to your photography
 
The most important contols,

(1) Power switch use this to switch your camera on & off, always switch it off before removing or inserting memory cards or when changing lenses.

(2) Lens release button, when you want to change lenses press this button before rotating the lens and removing it from the body.
(3) USB connector, the USB port is for conneting the camera to your computer so you can download your pictures.  
(4) Infrared receiver, this is for you to use a wireless shutter release device.
(5) Depth-of-field preview button, this button enables you to check the depth-of-field (how much of the photograph will be in focus).

Set up and shooting menus, tailor your camera to suit your photography needs. A great plus with digital over film is that you can set them to match your own preferences, The place to start is the set up section of the menu, which offers formating, date and time, of which are stored in the EXIF information of every photograph you take.

Other set-up features include numbering files, you can also adjust the brightness of the LCD panel,and lock up the mirror for sensor cleaning. One thing I nearly forgot switch off that annoying beep when the camera focuses, you get a indication for this in the view finder so you don’t need it, plus I find it puts me off anyway.

Colour space is called sRGB as standard, however you can switch to adobe RGB colour space which offers a wider “gamut” or range of colours handy for any retouching.

One advantage over film cameras is the play back menu, you can also change the time from 2, 4 and 8 seconds or switch it off,  if your battery life is a bit low. With film you have to wait till you get back your photograph’s from the developer. I use film and digital I like film myself and its here to stay for long time yet. 

Protect, with this, you can protect your photographs against accidental deletion. Bear in mind if you reformat the memory card in the camera, protected photographs will be deleted.

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