What is Tilt Shift Photography ?�
This is the realm of photography that involves tilting the lens with respect to the picture plain and taking photos in that configuration. “Tilt-shift” actually has two movements: the rotation of the lens, called Tilt and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, the Shift.
Tilt
 On a regular camera, the image plane, lens plane, and object plane are parallel, and objects in sharp focus are all at the same distance from the camera.. When the lens plane is tilted relative to the image plane, the Point …

Lenses are vulnerable to fungal infections. These fungal infections can be dangerous enough to damage the different coatings that the manufacturers give the lenses. The damage is cause usually by acidic secretions that these fungicides make in their normal biological cycle.

Fungal infection in the initial stage is not as serious a problem as it is portrayed in many places. Only in rare cases are lens damaged to irreparable or economically unjustified to be repaired conditions. This is mostly due to sheer negligence from the owners side. There are a lot …

Many point and shoot users aspire to become SLR users some day. The point at which to make the move is a point of confusion for most. The reason mostly being the commitment, both financial and technical that an SLR takes. This article is to list out some reasons that shouldn’t motivate you to make the switch. That is, these are the wrong reasons that you would be going to an SLR for.

One major difference between SLR users and a point and shoot user is that the p&s user has …

Bridge cameras or super zooms or any other name this category is known by includes cameras with a large range lens, meaning it covers from Wide to Telefocal lengths and a lot of settings. Most of them have shooting modes similar to DSLR cameras, this includes modes like aperture priority,ISO priority , fully manual and so on.

The main features that distinguish then from DSLR’s are: they have fixed lens and you cannot change it, they have electronic view finders, they have small sensors, they generally have older processors. These …

Aspect ratio is the ratio of length to width of a given image. That is the ratio between the two dimensions of an image. The main importance of aspect ratio is that an image of a given aspect ratio will look different on a medium of different aspect ratio. These images should illustrate this :
16:9
4:3
The above two images are of 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios respectively, clearly the amount of the scene shown in the two images are different. The second has little more sky than the first and the …