Posted by David Peterson on 15 Apr 2010 as Hieroglyphics Demystified, Tips
In a word, MM shows the focal length. But I’m sure you wanted to learn much more than that. You want to know what focal length means and how an understanding of it can improve your photography. As you have probably noticed, a lot of different lenses have different focal lengths. Some of them have [...]
Posted by David Peterson on 15 Jul 2008 as Hieroglyphics Demystified, Tips
Welcome to the first in a series where I explain what all the numbers and symbols mean on your camera.
It’s a problem almost as old as cameras. Manufacturers want to impart as much information as they can about an item, but they don’t have room on the product to place paragraphs of explaining information. So [...]