Camera BasicsBeginner3 min read
Files, cards and what to keep
RAW or JPEG, which memory card to buy, and the backup habit that stops one failure from costing you everything.
Camera Basics
What the parts do, and how to hold, set up and carry a camera.
Camera BasicsBeginner2 min read
Focus, and what it is for
Autofocus is very good at focusing accurately on the wrong thing. Deciding what should be sharp is the part it cannot do for you.
Camera BasicsBeginner2 min read
Holding the camera steady
Most photographs that beginners call out of focus are not. They are blurred by the photographer's own movement, and that has a specific cure.
Camera BasicsBeginner3 min read
What a camera actually does
A camera collects light for a measured moment and records it. Everything else is a way of controlling how much, and for how long.