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If you’ve purchased a digital camera in the last decade than you are very familiar with the megapixel-count, and how much of a selling-point it has become. But are megapixels really the best way to measure the quality of the photos you will end up getting? The tech geniuses over at Techquickie break down what a …
ISO, or International Standards Organization, affects the amount of light that hits the image sensor in the camera. In the film days, ISO used to be a measure of the film speed. Every time you double your ISO rating the amount of light your camera needs to produce an image is cut in half. As the experts …
Image stabilization has been around for quite a while, but it’s only the newer “optical image stabilization,” or, OIS, that adjusts for shakiness caused by camera movement. OIS reacts to stimulus in real time and makes sure that the path between the lens and the sensor is perfectly aligned before the subject is captured – …
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Have you ever wondered why an old television or computer monitor has trouble displaying high definition footage, even if that monitor has enough pixels to correctly display it? Well in a world of megapixels and resolution, very few people talk about or even know about color depth and bitrates. Color depth, or colour depth, is very …
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Whether we’re sending a cell-phone photo to a friend or we’re converting our RAW files, we have all used JPEG files before. But what is a JPEG file actually good for and how does it work? How does compression affect the final image? Are other file types better for other uses? The great minds over …
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Aperture is one of the most important technical aspects of photography, and being able to understand at least the basics of it will provide a photographer with a working knowledge of what they are doing, but learning about aperture and aperture settings can be very confusing and counterintuitive. For example, a small f-stop results in a wide …
Let’s be honest, you don’t really know how the image sensor in your camera works – but that’s okay because most people don’t! Not to fear, the great people over at Techquickie made a quick video, Image Sensors Explained, explaining how image sensors really work and the differences between different types of image sensors like CCD and …
Have you ever wondered how much more light an f/1.4 aperture lets in than an f/2.8 aperture? Well the answer might surprise you, because while f/1.4 might seem to be half the size of f/2.8, it actually lets in a total of four times more light. This video presents a great way to visualize and understand how to …
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