Beginner's guides to digital SLR Photography

The essential basics

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Getting started. What you need to know

When you bring home that fancy new toy with the interchangeable lenses and a manual that tells you everything except how to take pictures, you suddenly realise things are complicated. Crazy complicated. So, where do you begin?

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Learning from examples

The getting started article revealed the advantages of an SLR and how it ‘thinks’. Now we put that knowledge into action with a bunch of real situations.

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Understanding shutter speed

It’s one of the most basic things driving a camera. Here’s what shutter speed means.

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Understanding aperture

Like shutter speed, aperture is one of the fundamental things involved in getting a correct exposure. Here’s what you need to know.

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Focusing a modern digital SLR camera

Modern SLR cameras can focus automatically with speed and accuracy. You just want to make sure they focus with speed and accuracy on the right thing.