If you own a digital SLR camera, or are thinking of purchasing one, you may have heard of prime lenses. Unlike zoom lenses, prime lenses don’t allow you to zoom in or out while taking pictures. This has led many to wonder what they’re good for. If they do less, why purchase one? I’d like [...]

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If you only had one lens to use, what would it be? That’s the question we’ll attempt to answer. Lenses come in all shapes and sizes, but some of them are better at capturing the majority of what’s out there. As you’re about to find out, there is no answer that applies to everyone. There [...]

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In my regular Ask David column, I answer common questions from my readers. By answering them here, I hope to help everyone else who might have this problem, and not just the person who asked the question. Today, we have a bumper edition covering why you shouldn’t get a film camera; how shots get out [...]

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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 [...]

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The easiest way to achieve this is to use your feet. You can get almost as close as you want to a subject just by walking up to it. It’s so easy (and important to good photos) that my very first tip on my free tips course is Move Closer. Filling the frame entirely with [...]

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