A photography course different from the usual, free of charge. It will cover familiar and lesser-known topics, always in a simple and practical way, and along the way you will also discover some techniques used by professional photographers. So, which camera to choose? [1/8]
Reading the title of this article, you probably thought: “Ugh, here comes yet another digital photography course… why should I waste time reading things I already know?”
Well, firstly because when summer arrives we can take hundreds of shots with our little camera, but it’s better to refresh our memory to be ready for the event.
And know that I asked myself the same question when I started writing, and I found the answer immediately: my course will be different from the usual! It will be in installments and structured with questions and answers, so if you’re interested in the topic, you can read it right away, otherwise move on.
I will talk about well-known and lesser-known things, but I’ll discuss them simply and practically, and along the way, you’ll often discover some techniques used by professional photographers. Finally… it’s a free course! But let’s get to it and start from the beginning.
Compact camera or DSLR?
The answer is all too obvious; of course there are differences, and many, starting with the price. But even with a small compact 8-megapixel camera, you can publish a high-quality photo book, and in the next lessons we will see how.
All professionals always have a compact camera in their pocket. Yes, not in a bag, but right in their pocket. Because it is small, light, and handy, it’s a convenient visual notepad for taking notes, indispensable when the “click” of the shot must not be heard by anyone, very useful when we cannot miss the magic moment but don’t have the heavy equipment with us, and then it helps us go unnoticed in… let’s say… critical situations, because no one will suspect that, in reality, we are “real photographers.”
Moreover, if our little compact camera has a wide-angle lens, that is, a lens with a wide shooting angle, then we will be able to capture even those who think they won’t fit in the frame, which is particularly useful in social or news photography and, more generally, in travel reportage.
In short, it really seems that DSLRs are now useless, but in reality, that’s not true. In an interchangeable lens camera, the image quality is far superior to that of compacts because the lenses are excellent and often brighter, so we can take photos even with very little light; the sensor, being larger, suffers less from the electronic components’ “noise” and the high resolution allows printing larger photos; the adjustable settings are so many that a digital DSLR is now a true photographic computer.
And more: the weight and size guarantee proper handling, the reaction speed to the shot is almost imperceptible, the frames per second rate very high, and then a bulky camera makes you look like a “serious photographer”…
Complete photography course
- Photography course: which camera to choose?
- Photography course. The start: useful tips
- Photography course: sensitivity
- Photography course: blurred or shaky?
- Photography course: the circle of confusion
- Photography course: apertures
- Photography course: the battery
- Photography course: how to hold the camera
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