All Entries Tagged With: "dslr"

The 10 Best Selling DSLRs of 2009

Last week we highlighted The 10 Best Selling Point and Shoot Cameras of 2009 and today we’ll be looking at the big brothers of the industry.
The 10 Best Selling DSLRs of 2009 on Amazon
Again, we’re compiling this list by cross referencing the cameras that our readers bought through our Amazon links and the best sellers [...]

Top 10 Tips for Dynamite Digital Photography

By Tom Grimm and Michele Grimm,
Authors of The Basic Book of Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Enhance, and Share Your Digital Pictures
Here are 10 easy ways to greatly improve your digital photographs and avoid the pitfalls that are common with today’s automatic cameras. Professional photographers Michele and Tom Grimm offer these and many more tips [...]

Essential Gear for the Beginning DSLR Photographer

This guest post was provided by Laura Charon of BeyondMegapixels.com

It all started somewhere, this shared obsession we have with photography.  At some point in the past we all bought our first digital SLR camera, we were baffled by the variety of gear available for it, and we struggled with the size of our budget [...]

Diopter Adjustment

An easy troubleshoot tip for blurry images is to adjust the camera’s viewfinder to your eyes.
It’s called a Diopter Adjustment and is found on most of today’s DSLRs and in some less expensive cameras as well.
The diopter adjustment lets you manually adjust the optical viewfinder to best suit your own vision. This is great [...]

Photography Community Says: Try Before You Buy

All I can say is: Great job readers!
The age old (insofar as modern photography goes) question of Canon vs. Nikon vs. Other? often times brings up one-sided and heated debate over features and personal taste. So when Amy Loke posted this thread in our Flickr Group
“I’m thinking of buying my first DSLR. And I [...]

The Superzoom Camera

Your Photo Tips reader Maria asks:
What’s up with superzoom cameras? Are they worth the purchase or what?
It’s easy enough to find information on SLRs or DSLRs as well as an abundance of information about point and shoot compact cameras but what about that superzoom hybrid?
It’s compact (sort of) and is a great stepping stone [...]

ISO Killed the Professional Photographer

Perhaps the title is a bit much, or is it?
Consider that the some of the first barriers to becoming a professional photographer were prices in camera bodies, lenses, and lighting equipment. Nowadays the entry level “Pro-sumer” DSLRs allow many people without a professional photographer’s budget to break into the field of professional photography. [...]

The Small Format Camera

Modern small cameras serve well in many different situations. If you own a medium format, large format, SLR, or DSLR, then I highly recommend also having a small camera as well. This can of course mean a 35mm or digital compact point and shoot camera.
Perhaps it’s a matter of convenience or a change [...]

Readers Questions In A Flash

I often get emails about lighting.
Is lighting really that important?
What’s off camera flash all about?
What’s up with this whole strobist thing?
How do I get better pictures, I don’t have a budget for “professional gear”?
In a blanket effort to answer all of these questions I start with my own:
So how did the use of artificial lighting [...]

DSLR or Compact Camera? Pros and Cons

I get lot’s of emails from the readers of Your Photo Tips and I welcome every single one of them. I try my best to answer every email I get and it really helps to keep me enlightened by what you guys are wondering about the world of photography.
Recently I received three different emails [...]

RTFM

There are many components to becoming a good photographer, not the least of which is equipment. What’s that you say? I always preach about the process not the products? Yes, you’re right, I do think that the process is what makes a good photographer, but stick with me on this one for [...]

The Digital Photography Companion [Book Review]

The Digital Photography Companion by Derrick Story was sent to me by O’Reilly publishing for review.  While it wasn’t initially part of the Your Photo Tips Book Club this review will get added to the page.

The Digital Photography Companion was a pleasant surprise. Touted as “Practical photography advice you can take anywhere”, the book’s [...]

Analog to Digital: Making the Switch [Reader Question]

Here’s a reader question from Lars in Chile.  Yep, we’re global!  This is an email exchange with last names and email addresses omitted.  This also means that any errors in spelling and grammar are kept in tact.
Hello!
I have been into film photography for close to 40 years but am new to
digital photography.
herefore am very [...]

Weekend Perusing: A Photographer’s Life

This week’s “Featured Photoblog” is A Photographer’s Life by Igno van Neikerk.  This photoblog works really well on a number of levels.  The photographer uses lot’s of text to help turn a “viewing” experience into a “reading” experience and you really get a sense for what this photographer is all about.  The simple black setting [...]

Why A Fixed Focal Length 50mm Lens Is The Must Have Lens In Your Camera Bag

Camera lenses come in all sizes, speeds, and prices. No doubt you may have been shocked to see the sticker price for lenses after you bought your first SLR (or DSLR as the case may be).
So how does one decide which is the right size lens for you? Go with history and nature [...]