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Introductory camera guide and beginners guide on film camera and digital camera for still photography
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First, let us answer this question we know someone is bound to ask "What is still photography?" The word Still here means "not moving or in motion", still photography means pictures that are "still" as contrasting to motion pictures or movies. The 35mm camera and digital camera that we mention here are 35mm still camera or digital still camera, the opposite is 35mm movie camera and digital video camera. This defines the subject that will be covered in this camera guide Today's still photography camera market has become very competitive among manufacturers and camera designers. The product life cycle of digital cameras has shorten greatly and choices of brands and models are abundant. This is indeed good for the consumers for they are now spoilt by what are available in the camera market but they also get confused with choices. Where value for money, features and picture quality is concerned it really makes buying a new camera a tough decision.  Shadow of a Legend. The current price erosion of digital camera adds to the intense competition and short product life cycle we mentioned above are making life tough for traditional camera manufacturers. Adding salt to the wound now even non traditional camera makers such as consumer product manufacturers, PC and computer accessories manufacturers, mobile phone manufacturers are also competing for the digital camera market. As a result of this out of the few dozens digital camera manufacturers only a handful are making profits. Two legendary camera manufacturers have already closed down, a few other well-known ones are at risk of facing the same fate. Life is getting tough. The good old days of clean profit from film cameras is now just a sweet memory for most camera manufacturers. Sadly, this market condition has led to some of these manufacturers putting up confusing advertisements and claims to outsmart each other. Slight advantages on minor features over the competitors are high lighted and many of the more important camera specifications are never mentioned or listed in their advertisements. Instead specification that has little to do with taking good photos and features that tell you very little about the camera are blown up. Although we can always find out more about the camera that we are interested in by reading camera reviews and camera test reports from newspapers, photo magazines and the world wide web, but we don't have the basic knowledge of camera fundamentals we may get confused further by these information. Moreover every human is biased towards some area of their interest and prejudice, so is every writer and camera reviewer. Even editors are often influenced by their advertisers though outwardly we all disclaim that fact. So how do we read those camera reviews with an open mind? This is where your understanding of the camera fundamentals come in. We sincerely hope this camera guide can provide some help to aid beginners in this area by them gaining some basic understanding of still photography camera. Our technical background allows us to navigate between film and digital photography seamlessly. We will try to share our limited experience and understanding of camera with our readers and show them the important features of still camera that will yield fine end results - a quality photograph. However, no matter how good a camera is, it can only deliver a quality photo to the skill level of the photographer behind it. This camera guide is written as an introduction to camera. It is not written for advanced photography enthusiasts seeking for the next best hi-tech camera to fill their quest. The writing will be centred on the average digital or film camera though some passing comments will be made on more advanced cameras when necessary to bring the point across. This camera guide is also not a photography tutorial though you may pick up some photo taking tips here and there. You will notice that we make a lot of reference to 35mm camera in this camera guide, partly because we learnt and grew with 35mm camera. However most importantly, in the course of writing this camera guide we found that it is easier if we establish a common format standard as a reference point. Consumer digital camera in its present form is too diverse in format and does not have a clear standard yet. We found that we might have to put up too many examples just to put our point across. Using 35mm camera as our talking point has made writing and comparison easier. So for the time being we will use 35mm camera as our reference point until a clear standard emerge in the consumer digital camera market. Moreover this camera guide is about camera both digital and film, and 35mm camera is still the current standard in film camera. A wise man from China once said A Journey of a thousand miles start with a single step so for the newbies let our first step begin here. For the advanced photography enthusiasts we would like to share two of our favorite digital photo websites with you. The first one is Steve DigiCams a website with |
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This camera guide is written in simple layman language about the fundamental of still photography camera both digital and 35mm film. We hope this camera guide will provide some information and reference for the beginner and casual photographer looking for the right camera.
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