November 24, 2009

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How-To – Metering Systems

Industry Perspective – Facebook #1 For Online Photo Sharing

What's New This Month – Fujifilm, Adobe, Horseman, Epson, and Tenba

How-To – Dynamic Range

How-To – Exposure Basics I

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Metering Systems
Exposure Patterns
by George Schaub

The metering system in your camera is a highly sophisticated microprocessor that is constantly fed information from the light entering the lens, the lens itself (its aperture setting and even focal length) other settings you have made on the camera (such as your focusing point and distance, whether or not you have the flash off or on) and from your preferences in how you would like to have the light interpreted to get the image effects you desire. One of the ways you input your preferences to the camera is by making certain settings on your metering system. This includes the metering pattern (how it reads light) and the Metering mode (how it interprets and translates that light to aperture and shutter speed settings for you).
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Dynamic Range
by George Schaub

Dynamic range is the ability of the sensor to capture a certain range of light and dark, or brightness values. Think of it as the number of keys on the piano the “hand” of the sensor can cover. While the sensor may offer an octave’s worth of tones, this octave can be moved all around the keyboard. If the light is low the sensor can adjust through the use of high ISO and slower shutter speeds and wider apertures. If that range of notes is bright then the sensor can be adjusted to handle exposure with narrower apertures, faster shutter speeds and lower ISO settings. Though there is a wide range of adjustment the sensor and settings can be made to handle there is always a certain range of light that it can record—that’s the dynamic range of the sensor. An important part of mastering exposure is understanding this and seeing light, and especially contrast, the way the sensor sees it.
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Exposure Basics I
by George Schaub

“Exposure” is shorthand for the delicate balance of the light sensitivity of the recording material (in our case the camera’s CCD or CMOS sensor with picture sites, known as pixels) with the amount of light in the scene. There are two parts of a camera system that control the amount of light coming through the lens—the aperture (the diameter of the opening in the lens) which is described as an “f” number, such as f/8, and the shutter speed, which is the amount of time the shutter stays open to receive the light coming through the lens, described as a fraction of a second, such as 1/125 sec (or just 1/125) or a full second or seconds.
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Facebook #1 For Online Photo Sharing
by Ron Leach, Publisher

The past three years has seen some rather dramatic shifts in the way consumers utilize online photo services, according to a leading market research firm for the digital imaging industry. In their 2009 Online Photo Services study, analysts at InfoTrends note a strengthening shift toward the use of social networking sites on the part of those who want to share images with friends and family.
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