Intro
- Learn about cameras & the various types of cameras in the market now
- Learn about their differences & unique features
- Learn about their components & how they each work
Camera Types
- Comparing still and video cameras
- Understanding the basic components of a camera
- Introducing the popular types of cameras: from smartphone cameras to mirrorless systems, DSLRs and medium format
- Understand the strength and weakness of each camera system, and the differences between the low end and high-end systems (processing power of the camera, speed in making setting changes, photo quality & resolution)
- Understand what are acquisition sensors & their sizes
Types of Lenses
- Understanding focal length; from the aspect of humans eyes focal length (50mm, wide-angle, tele)
- Specs of lenses (focal length, max aperture, min focal distance)
- Focal length & genre of photography (portrait, macro, landscape)
- Classification of lenses based on focal length & genre (portrait lenses, landscape lenses, macro lenses)
- Prime lenses vs zoom lenses
- What lens is suitable for you and the popular lenses you can buy
Understanding Cameras' Exposure Settings:
- Various ways you can control the 3 Exposure Parameter
- How the camera measures light and how to read the exposure meter
- What is ISO & what are the limitations & workarounds
- Aperture and how to work with the best values
- Shutter Speed & its effect on depicting motion & photo sharpness
Camera Settings:
- Photo quality & resolution
- Photo file format (jpg & raw)
- Exposure (shutter, aperture & ISO)
- Focusing (autofocus modes & focusing areas)
Color Settings Of Your Cameras:
- Understand how the camera handles colors
- Concept of color spaces
- Color profiles
- White Balance, Filter Color Filters & ABGM shifts
- Accuracy in colors & tone in photography
Cameras' Focusing Settings:
- What are Focusing Modes?
- What are Focusing Areas?
- What is the best Mode & Area combination?
Progressing Forward From This Course:
- Introduction to manual mode exposure
- Introduction to the compositional styles in Arts Of Seeing
- Introduce how post-processing works in photography
- Introduce another genre of photography, such as Portrait, Macro & Landscape
