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New DSLR camera

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I registered with the Sydney based photo art site. Then I went through every photo I’d taken with my digital camera except those I’d lost. I lost all of my American shots, damn it. I’ve now backed up all my other photos on a flash drive. You should take note of a posting I did about storing photos online. You can add Ph.Art to that list now as you can upload to a private gallery there.

Then I submitted a few photos. So far, one has been declined because of its subject matter and one has been accepted. You can see my photos  at  PhotoArt here.  Hopefully, by the time you click on that link, more photos will have been selected.

my new canon dslr

Then after much research, I bought a DSLR  from an online site. It is a Canon DSLR (EOS 1000D) for under $1000. Some of the best and most expensive compact digitals were as expensive, so I think I got a good deal. Can’t wait to use it. I’ll need to get out of Melbourne soon.

I love the fact that this new site where you can sell photos is Australian. It just feels better, as many of the photos you see are of Australia. Many of the ones I submitted were of a Tasmanian trip I did a few years ago. You cannot fail to take a good photo in Tasmania.

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Some digital camera terms explained

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When I first bought a digital camera, there were only point and shoot types and the mega pixels were much fewer. Mine had only 3.1 and my son now has a mobile phone with 6 mega pixels. So, my camera (with fewer megapixels than the one below) is virtually useless and next I would definitely buy an SLR digital camera.

canon power shot camera

I used to upload some of my photos to the stock sites, like dreamstime, but the size of a photo taken with my camera is now quite small compared with the cameras with more mega pixels.  Dreamstime would specify that we should get rid of noise before uploading. I had no idea what noise was.

NOISE in a digital image has nothing to do with audio.  A digital camera emits photo receptors which are interpreted as black or randomly coloured dots. SLR digital cameras with a medium amount of mega pixels   have less noise than the smaller compact digital camera. But there is still noise. The makers therefore build in “noise reduction”. However noise reduction blurs fine detail. So the best digital camera is the SLR digital camera with a medium amount of mega pixels.

I’ve talked of mega pixels. A pixel is a tiny dot, thousands of which, make up an image. Now one would think that the more mega pixels the camera has , the better, but not so. My brother did research on this before he upgraded. The more mega pixels you have, the more NOISE.

ISO has always been a standard for cameras. In the old cameras before the digital, ISO settings were narrow, from about 50 to 400, 800.  With the new digital camera the ISO can be set to between 50 to 6500. But using a higher ISO can also mean more noise. The ISO determines the speed of the shot you can take: for moving objects you would have a higher ISO and still shots would have a much lower ISO.

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The problem with digital cameras

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When I first got my digital camera, after having used an SLR for years, I couldn’t work out why people were holding theirs way out in front of them. I soon worked it out.
The LCD lens on a digital camera is pretty useless on a bright day. All you can see is black and you take photos blind.
My camera does have a viewfinder but it isn’t any use when I’m taking a zoomed image. What I see is not what I get.

There are cameras you can get which overcome the problem. The Sony W and the Canon G9 are just two of them. They have viewfinders which act like the ones on SLRs.

Or you can buy a Delkin Pop-up Shade which sticks to the back of the camera, protecting the LCD and which folds out to shade the screen.

My source here is Terry Lane in the Green Guide, The Age, 27 March, 2008