Project 52

Understanding your Camera Lens

Understanding your Camera Lens

What lenses I need to buy? Is camera kit lens is enough? Do I need all those lenses? This are some questions I heard from some people who wants to enter in photography hobby.

Being one of a senior member in one of Photography Club here in Dubai United Arab Emirates I was assigned in Abu Dhabi to give a lecture about Lenses or Camera Lenses. So I share my knowledge in a simplest way I know.

As I practice my photography skills I give my concentration on events and photojournalism, which in my own opinion requires more skills/knowledge in maximizing the use of camera lenses. Not just having a camera will going to get the best pictures we wanted. Most of us who take photos are amateurs in the art world, but with the right equipment our photography can be elevated to a new height. Lenses are important especially when you settle on a medium you will train in. Most photographers choose one area of photography to specialize in. There are many types of lenses, the standard, telephoto, wide angle, zoom and panoramic lenses.

What is Lens?
 A basic component of a camera that takes the light that enters the camera and focus it on single point to form a sharp image.
 The Most important part of the camera. Lens is like human eye without it you cannot capture/see good images.

Most cameras have a lens, even the point and shoot type. Often when you purchase a camera package or kit they will come with standard kit lens with it. All SLR Camera have interchangeable lenses while all compact and point & shoot camera has lens fixed in the camera body that you cannot change or replace. You do not have to stick with the same brand of lenses as your cameras since a lot of brand is available just make sure that it is fits in your camera body.

What is the Basic Function of the Lens? (continue reading…)

A compact and easy-to-use multi-functional Speedlight for Nikon digital SLR cameras

Key Features

• LCD and layout of controls designed for easy and intuitive operation
• Multi-step auto zoom covers wide 24-120 mm zoom range
• Three illumination patterns–standard, center-weighted and even–available to match every shooting environment
• Automatically detects Nikon FX and Nikon DX formats and selects suitable light distribution angle
• Short recycling time
• AF-assist illumination for multi-point AF, with wide 24-135 mm focal range
• Quick wireless control mode allows control of remote flash unit groups A and B flash output level ratios
• Firmware updates via Nikon digital SLR cameras
• Automatically delays recycling time if temperature of flash head rises in order to avoid deterioration of flash head
• Automatically detects type of hard-type color compensation filter (fluorescent and incandescent) and automatically transmits filter information to camera for optimum white balance setting
• Optional Water Guards WG-AS1 (for D3 series), WG-AS2 (for D300 series) and WG-AS3 (for D700) protect camera’s accessory shoe contact when SB-700 is mounted on a Nikon digital SLR camera

see nikon.com for more details

New image-processing engine “EXPEED 2″

After the press released of the New 120 megapixels Canon APS-H-size CMOS image sensor, here they are Canon make an announcement to exhibit they new telephoto lenses which still under development.

Last August 26, 2010 TOKYO (Japan), Canon Inc. announced that it is developing two new telephoto lenses for use with its EOS lineup of single-lens reflex cameras—the EF500mm f/4L IS II USM and EF600mm f/4L IS II USM—and will display prototypes at the photokina 2010 photography and imaging industry trade fair between September 21 and 26 in Cologne, Germany.

The EF500mm f/4L IS II USM and EF600mm f/4L IS II USM are being developed as L (Luxury)-series lenses equipped with a high-performance image stabilization system.

EF500mm f/4L IS II USM (prototype)

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TOKYO, August 24, 2010—Canon Inc. announced today that it has successfully developed an APS-H-size CMOS image sensor that delivers an image resolution of approximately 120 megapixels (13,280 x 9,184 pixels), the world’s highest level of resolution for its size.

Canon's newly developed CMOS sensor, featuring approx. 120 megapixels

Compared with Canon’s highest-resolution commercial CMOS sensor of the same size, comprising approximately 16.1 million pixels, the newly developed sensor features a pixel count that, at approximately 120 million pixels, is nearly 7.5 times larger and offers a 2.4-fold improvement in resolution.

Canon’s newly developed CMOS sensor also incorporates a Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) video output capability. The sensor can output Full HD video from any approximately one-sixtieth-sized section of its total surface area.

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