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Choosing The Right Camera and Settings
Rating: 4.8 out of 5(11 ratings)
50 students

Choosing The Right Camera and Settings

Understand cameras & settings before you start photography
Created byBeyond Photography
Last updated 6/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn about cameras & the various types of cameras in the market now, their differences & unique features, their components & how they each work
  • Camera Types
  • Types of Lenses
  • Understanding Cameras' Exposure Settings
  • Camera Settings
  • Color Settings Of Your Cameras
  • Cameras' Focusing Settings

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 1h 1m total length

  • Introduction1:08

    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

  • Basic Components of Camera3:12

    Understanding the basic components of a camera.

  • Types of Camera2:26
  • Components and Architecture of a Camera4:41

    Lets learn the components and architecture of a camera, from its most basic to its most modern form.

    In this lesson, Andrew teaches you what all these components are so that you are a wiser & more technologically in-the-know photographer.

  • CCD & CMOS sensors3:43

    CCD vs CMOS – Which is Better?
    https://www.azosensors.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1007

    CCD versus CMOS
    https://diffractionlimited.com/ccd-versus-cmos-better/

    CCD vs CMOS Sensors
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vgtJJ2wwMA

  • Lenses2:03

    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 popular lenses you can buy

  • Aperture4:44
  • Elements2:54
  • Colors5:01
  • Exposure7:56
  • Focusing10:19
  • The COMPLETE guide to Exposure in Photography13:14

    The Complete Guide to Exposure in Cameras & Photography.

    This video was originally published on our Youtube channel. We are including this video here because it is popular and has high reviews from viewers. This is an additional content, provided for the benefit of all subscribers to this E-Learning course.

Requirements

  • Anyone can learn

Description

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

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner

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