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Buying
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A Primer for
Taking Good Pictures
by judywhite
Tips on Buying a good
Manual Camera
and Lenses
- Choose a camera
that enables you to manually set both shutter speed and
f-stop, as well as the film speed (ISO). I
personally recommend the Nikon FM-2 or the Nikon F3, but
there are many fine cameras out there for those
manually-inclined. Many will have an automatic setting as
well, but if so, make sure that the camera is
"aperature-priority" rather than "shutter-priority". This
means you have the option of setting the f-stop in
automatic mode, which is more important than
automatically setting the shutter speed for garden
photography.
- Make sure it has
a depth-of-field preview button. This is
essential for learning how to take professional shots.
This will let you see before you shoot how clear the
image is from front of the shot to the back.
- Buy a camera
that allows interchangeable lenses. This may be
obvious, but I just thought I'd mention it.
- Some options
that aren't necessary, but sure are handy:
An exposure compensation dial
A button that allows you to take double-exposures
An exposure lock
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