Digital Photography Basics for Photographers

Digital photography is chosen by many photographers, who take advantage of the convenience of the form to send images by email, put them on the World Wide Web, or display digital photo frames.

Digital photography is the main choice to take pictures. If you're in the market for a new camera, look at the following advantages of digital photography over traditional film. Digital is less expensive. All photos are registred in the memory device to the camera and then downloaded directly to your PC.





With digital photography, images can be easily changed according to your choice. Everything usually starts as color, but the tone of light and color can be changed easily with the use of editing software. Defects in the photographs, such as unwanted marks on the face of the subject, shadows caught unintentionally poor can easily be removed.

A further advantage is in the running costs. You do not have to constantly have to buy the film and the images are retained in memory reusable. The only thing that may have to buy is batteries, although most come with rechargeable batteries.

Learning the roots of digital photography allows you to enjoy your passion. If you really love to take pictures, then you know that you still have more to explore in your digital camera. This can be a great source of your passion to become an investment or even career. Obviously, once you have started with the basics of digital photography that can advance to higher education.

A lot of people make a career in photography and there are many different fields of photography to choose from. Some courses are specialized photography: art photography, travel, fashion, portrait, food photography and more.

Olympus XZ-1

MANILA, Philippines — Competitions on digital cameras keep rising and Olympus never falters to produce stylish and innovative cameras. The Olympus XZ-1 boasts a high sensitivity 10 megapixel compact camera, with a bright 28-112mm range lens, F1.8-2.5 maximum aperture, TruePic V image processor, a high resolution 3-inch OLED display screen, a CCD-shift image stabilization that prevents blurs from camera shakes, eighteen scene modes, six built-in art filters, nine exposure modes, and HD recording.

With dimensions 111x65x42mm, and weighing 275g, the XZ-1 is a lightweight companion suited for people’s photography needs. This compact camera delivers a solid performance by taking quality pictures. The bright lens allows easier low light shooting conditions without increasing the ISO.

With the bright lens affecting daylight shootings, Olympus added a built-in ND filter that balances light coming from the sun.

The 4X zoom feature makes it an excellent choice for Macro shots and it has a built-in Supermacro mode.

The eighteen scene modes are well diversed for shots that include sunsets, portraits, landscapes, night shots, sports, pets, cuisines, documents and more.

The built-in art filters add a variety of flavors for each shot to be creative without the need to purchase expensive filters for DSLR camera.

This makes the XZ-1 a fine learning curve for photographers studying filters.

Even casual users who simply want to add some creativity into their images, from bringing out the subject’s full colors, softening the image, grainy black and white film, or adding dramatic tone that alters the entire image, creativity is optimized.

The art filter can be used for recording videos, however, with the art filter on, it causes lags that turns the file into a stop motion film, which may or may not work for the user’s advantage.

The downside to this all, the XZ-1 is not built for speed. Turning it on takes a couple of seconds, and switching modes causes a delay before you can take another picture, and the lack of direct access to ISO and white balance adjustments is a slight issue -- although it only takes a moment to open the function menu and use the control dial to fix those settings.

Other than these minor kinks, the Olympus XZ-1 is a compact camera with the right attitude.

It will fit your personality, whether you're a newbie with an eye for details, or a seasoned shooter who goes for picture quality.

Specifications

High Sensitivity 10MP CCD sensor

28-112mm equivalent lens

F1.8-2.5 maximum aperture

CCD-shift image stabilization

Twin control dials, including one around the lens

ISO 100-6400

New TruPic V processor

Large 3.0” 621k (VGA equivalent) OLED display

720p movie mode (30 fps in Motion JPEG format)

Micro HDMI connector

6 Art Filters

In-camera RAW conversion

Built-in flash, hotshoe and remote flash control

Built-in ND filter

source: mb.com.ph