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    Compact Camera User Guide
    Compact Camera User Guide
    Compact Camera User Guide
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    Compact Camera User Guide

    By David Cade

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    You may have already found that reading books and magazines on photography is rather like opening oysters - you will need to open and look through many if you are hoping find a take-home pearl that you can use. In this book, you will discover that the author has indeed opened many oysters and eaten them all, leaving only the pearls for you to keep. You will see from the rather long Table of Contents that each feature of your compact camera or app-enhanced smartphone camera has a separate hyperlink to navigate to each heading where you will find useful information.
    Under each heading, the information is clearly explained and is easily understood, even by a novice or would-be photographer. More experienced amateur photographers will learn many of the practical details of using their camera that they may never have really understood. The clarity of the text will leave readers with very few unanswered questions about how to get the best out of their camera.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Cade
    Release dateMay 22, 2015
    ISBN9781311654380
    Compact Camera User Guide
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    David Cade

    Dr David Cade is an Australian retired consultant physician (called an internist in USA) in Critical Care medicine. He has written these camera notes with attention to clarity and precision. Together with his wife Robyn (a retired physiotherapist) they spend their leisure time gardening, bird watching, hacking at golf, long distance swimming, paddling a marathon canoe and walking their two poodles.Recently David has written a Golf Instruction Summary available at Smashwords for pre-order and due for release in early December, 2015.

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      Compact Camera User Guide - David Cade

      Compact Camera User Guide

      By David Cade

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 David Cade

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this ebook and did not purchase it or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Focus, Depth of Field, Aperture

      Why are my Photos not Sharp? What can I do About it?

      Exposure, ISO, HDR, Photoshopping

      Portrait, Red-Eye Reduction

      Landscape, Sports (Action), ‘Burst’ Shooting

      Night scene, NightMacro mode, Movie (not detailed)

      Motion blur, Panning

      Curtain Flash

      Flash, Slow Sync

      Self-timer, Tripod

      Exposure Compensation

      Contrast, Colour Saturation

      Neutral Density Filter

      Auto White Balance (AWB)

      Image Stabilisation (IS)

      LCD

      Battery indicator

      Viewfinder

      GPS

      Voice Memo

      WiFi

      JPEG and RAW

      Histogram

      Lenses, Focal Length, Zoom

      Mode Settings

      Importance of P (Program Mode)

      Other Camera Features

      Shooting, Composition

      Choosing Optional Features

      Which Camera should You have? Advantage of smartphone

      Afterword

      About the author

      Introduction

      New digital cameras have been pre-programmed by the manufacturer with default settings such as Auto mode, auto flash, flexi-zone focusing, and evaluative exposure (light and colour) metering. These settings allow a novice photographer to take the camera out of its box, charge the battery, put in a memory card and start shooting right away.* Asterisk (*) symbols used in the text mark information gleaned from articles written by Terry Lane - see Afterword. Some of the images will be satisfactory and the others can be deleted. Many people do not learn anything further about their camera's capabilities which is a pity because even quite basic cameras offer considerable versatility.

      The two most important camera variables for the photographer to manipulate are focus and exposure.

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      Focus (autofocus, AF), Depth of Field, Aperture

      A camera lens can only achieve sharp focus on a single vertical plane at a particular distance, and not simultaneously on several planes at different distances from the camera. There will be objects on both the near side and the far side of this single plane that are in acceptable focus. The distance from the nearest to the farthest of these objects in acceptable focus is called the ‘depth of field’ (= ‘depth of focus’, DoF). Objects outside this range will be out of focus and progressively so, the further out of this range they are.

      The depth of field achieved by a particular lens is largely determined by the size of its aperture, which is referred to by a number called the ‘f/number or f/stop’. The Av symbol on a camera mode dial means Aperture value.

      The first film camera available to the general public was the Eastman Kodak 'Box Brownie'. It went on sale in 1900 at a price of $1. It was made of cardboard and had a pinhole aperture, giving a deep depth of field, in which everything in the field of view was in acceptable focus, from near to far.

      With a modern adjustable camera, selecting an aperture value that gives a small aperture will give a deep depth of field just like a pinhole camera. Selecting a large aperture, will give a shallow depth of field

      You will soon get used to the aperture numbering system where a small aperture has a high f/number, say f/11 or f/16, and a large aperture has a low f/number, say f/2.6.

      In all circumstances, a half-press of the shutter button operates the lens autofocus and the exposure metering and sets the Image Stabiliser (IS; see below) all at the same time. A beep indicates that focusing has been achieved.

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      Why are My Photos Not Sharp? What can I Do About It?

      In Auto mode your camera will choose the aperture size (and many of the other settings) and it

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