Digital Shots Guide
Welcome to Digital Shots Guide – your guide to taking better digital photos. The goal of this site is to help you learn how to take better digital pictures, and to teach you what all those features on your camera do. We’ll also provide you with new reviews of digital cameras, recommend cameras worth buying, and tell you what features you should look for in a digital camera.
Thanks for stopping by.
~John C
Digital Zoom Is Not A Useful Feature
The Dangers of Digital Zoom
Camera advertisements always mention digital zoom along with the regular optical zoom, but it’s best not to use it. All it does is zoom in and crop to a part of the picture without increasing the quality. You can do this using a photo editor and then you can get the framing of the picture absolutely perfect. When buying a camera, ignore the total zoom number and just look at how much optical zoom the camera has.
Don’t Let the Sun Ruin Your Perfect Shot
Want outdoor pictures with richer colors? Try using a polarizing filter. This will reduce glare and reflections, giving your shots improved quality. Can’t get a polarizing filter? Not a problem. Take a pair of quality sunglasses and place them in front of the lens, just be sure not to get the frames in the shot. It’s recommended when using a polarizing filter to position yourself so your subject is at a 90 degree angle from the sun.
Advantages of Film Cameras
I’ve written an entire article on numerous advantages of digital cameras over film cameras, but that doesn’t mean film is dead.
Bought a great new digital camera? Don’t know why you’re keeping the old film camera? Don’t put the garage sale price tag sticker on that old camera just yet. Film still does have some advantages, such as:
• Increased resolution (for those ever so popular “will you marry me?” billboards)
• Don’t need batteries (more recent point and shoots do, I’m talking the old SLRs)
• Easily accessible media (my local gas station doesn’t sell memory cards quite yet, does yours?)
• Burst mode and no shutter lag. Burst modes on digitals don’t usually take a lot of pictures except on the highest end digital SLRs (which cost over $4,000 and that doesn’t include the lens!)
