Have you been wondering what this Bokeh, that most pro’s talk about, is? It is actually the misspelling of a Japanese word if you take it in a literary sense. The real spelling is Boke and its a Japanese word meaning Fuzzy. OK don’t wonder where your friends learned Japanese from. Photography has a lot to do with Japan and there are a lot of Japanese pro’s this word was commonly used by them to explain the fuzzy areas and its quality. Now an English writer writing for an English …

SLR cameras show the image that is actually going to come on the sensor in the viewfinder. They do this by using a mirror in front of the sensor and the reflecting it to the viewfinder. The problem comes in the second reflection that is we need to get a 90 degree turn to get the image on the viewfinder here comes the pentaprism or the pentamirror
Lets see the principle behind this first, it will be easier to explain this using a pentaprism so we are going to talk in …

Monopods are devices used by photographers to stabilize the camera. When shooting in low light condition the cameras shutter needs to be kept open for a longer period of time. When this period of time is long enough for motion to happen the motion will come on the photo thus taken. This motion some times is a useful element in the photograph but mostly it is unwanted. This motion is referred to as blur. The motion can be due to two reasons, one being that the people or object being …

You must have seen the flower like contraption fixed in front of many telephoto lenses. Sometimes, u find them on normal lenses also; what do they do ? If you have had the chance to see a professional movie camera at work, you would have seen a device like an elephants ear fixed to the front of the camera; these are called matte boxes.
Lens Hood
Matte Box
Lens Hoods
The basic purpose of these devices are to prevent glare and lens flares. Now, coming to lens hoods, again, there are different variants. The …

If you have ever gone to buy a DSLR, you must have heard the terms CCD and CMOS. As we all know DSLRs or digital cameras in general do not use Photographic Films. In place of the Photographic Film, we have light sensing units called photographic sensors. The main two categories of sensors available are CCD or Charge Coupled Device and CMOS or Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Both the technologies are actually not sensors, CCD is a type of shift register and CMOS is the name given to a class …