Mrs. Tara Guzman



TYPES OF CAMERASThere are many different types of cameras and lenses. We are going to focus on digital equipment because this is a digital photography class. However, I encourage you to explore film camera’s as they offer a completely different world of possibilities. Please read the following online articles: to the following questions on a Google Doc. I recommend that if you have difficulties finding answers in the articles suggested, please seek the answers on other websites. Just be sure you are confident your answers are correct.Title your Google Doc: P# Last name, first initial, CAMERA TYPESWhat is a compact (point and shoot) camera?What are the advantages to using a compact (point and shoot) camera?What are the disadvantages to using a compact (point and shoot) camera?A Digital Single Lens Camera (DSLR) has 3 components that a compact camera does not. What are they?What is an advantage to using a DSLR camera over a compact camera?What is the difference between a “crop frame DSLR” and a “full frame DSLR”?What is a Mirrorless camera? What makes it “mirrorless”?Why would a person prefer to use a mirrorless camera?What is a full frame camera? Why would a person prefer to use a full frame camera?Describe a disadvantage to using a full frame?What type of camera is your phone?Which type of camera would you personally use if money was no object?Now that we’ve covered some of the digital camera options out there, let’s focus on some additional equipment you will use in this class. First of all, you will be using a DSLR camera. I encourage you to get to know all the options a DSLR provides to take excellent photos and forget about using your phone or a “point and shoot” camera. The DSLR camera offers the photographer much more control and twice the image quality.In a DSLR camera we use SD cards to record images (instead of film). Please read the following online article and answer the following questions: What is an SD card? A 16GB SD card is the most common one we use for this class. About how many photographs will a 16GB SD card hold? When we say size of the SD card, what are we referring to? Name three types of cards being used primarily in the photography world. What is a Micro SD card? What is an Eye-fi card? What is a Compact Flash card?Please review your answers and share with me upon completion.Share to: guzmanwghsphoto@ ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download