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Tips and techniques for photographing star trails (contd) ..

Tip 936 (Understanding what causes star trails): You see those beautiful star trails, and it seems like the movement of stars causes the whole beautiful effect. In fact, what your open camera shutter (and the sensor inside) captures is the movement of the earth, since the stars are stationary, while the movement of the earth [...]

5 tips to learn more about Image Stabilization (contd..)

Tip 386 (No need for Image Stabilization when using a tripod or normal shooting): Although the treatment for using Image Stabilization varies from camera to camera, there is pretty much agreement that Image Stabilization is useful when there is a need for it, but one should turn it off when the conditions do not require [...]

5 tips to learn more about Image Stabilization

Tip 381 (What is Image Stabilization): You must have heard of Image Stabilization. After all, modern cameras all proclaim the power of Image Stabilization. Image Stabilization is a measure used to increase the stability of an image. It is needed since there will be camera shake at low shutter speeds, which will render an image [...]

5 photo tips as of 22 November 2008

Tip 96 (Tones and digital cameras): If you feel worried about some of the tones seen from a photo, then you are correct. Digital cameras can’t record an infinite range of tones; what happens if if the darkest areas of a scene fall below the sensor’s detection threshold, they’re going to record as a solid [...]