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And, by then, 35mm SLRs had reached the height of automation with advanced autofocusing, exposure metering and very fast (for film) motordrives. For the Japanese camera makers, the autoexposure-only ...

In the last couple months my Photography Snapshot series has focused on the theory of light and how it behaves as it created images in an optical system. I'm planning to shift my focus now from the ...

You can’t always rely on fully automatic exposures, so it pays to learn how to adjust two important controls that determine how much light reaches the image sensor in a camera. To obtain a ‘correct ...

We've previously looked at how aperture, shutter speed and ISO can control the amount of light your camera uses, and how they're related in the exposure triangle. But how does a camera determine what ...

While playing with my new camera last night, I noticed something strange about the in-camera exposure metering while using the flash. When the camera is in Av mode and set to a wide-open aperture ...

WiFi has become something that the vast majority of us use regularly, day in, day out. We use at home and at the office to get online, and many of us use it while out and about to get online for free ...