Cameras

Taking excellent pictures is as much a result of careful staging as it is a result of good lighting conditions. The Olympus Wireless Flash gives photographers a new level of control over how much...

It’s often difficult to take photos of small objects you want to sell on Ebay or Craigslist especially if you want the fine details to show up. Small objects such as small figurines like the...

Digital picture frames bring the 21st century into your living room, home, office or even bedroom. They allow you to plug in a flash memory card from your camera, and immediately start enjoying a...

Flash units expand a photographer's ability to take pictures in low-light and interior settings without worrying about blurriness, graininess or other imperfections. Although modern cameras often...

Amateur photographers usually only rely on their flash units when their subject is otherwise too dark to be photographed. A more experienced photographer understands that a flash can be used in a...

The Vivitar 285HV is a camera flash unit featuring various modes and flash strengths. It can be attached to your camera's hot shoe, or be used separately to add fill light on a subject. While...

Digital photography is a fun and rewarding hobby, but professional quality equipment can be too expensive for an amateur's budget. Improve your photography with a flash diffuser that provides...

The Canon Canonet 28 is a 35mm rangefinder-type camera released in 1971, and remained in production until 1976. The camera was compact and provided a lot of manual control, including stepless...

What do you do when the light’s too dim to take a good picture of something moving? What do you do when there’s too much distance between your camera’s flash and the subject to make good use of...

A camera is comprised of a number of parts. The most basic include the body, the lens, and the shutter.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PERSONAL CAMERA Or, “How to Avoid Taking the World’s Worst Picture,” which is what most of us have learned to do. Why? The World’s Worst Picture came directly out of the...

While photographers can mix-and-match mechanical components like lenses with relatively little worry---provided the tools can physically fit together---swapping electronic components can be a bit...

TTL (through the lens) flash systems measure the light output via an in-camera sensor to get correct flash exposure. Companies have different versions of TTL exposure. The latest Nikon version of...

Proper flash technique is a skill that opens a variety of photographic opportunities not otherwise available to an amateur photographer. Whether using an on- of off-camera strobe, correctly using...

Everyday people take photographs of special occasions only to find out later that the eyes of the people they were photographing appear to be glowing red. This can be extremely frustrating and...

The ultra direct memory access (UDMA) compact flash card is a high-performance memory card for digital cameras. Though it is used in some regular digital camera models, the UDMA compact flash card...

The Canon Speedlite 430 EX Flash is an external light source for Canon digital cameras. According to Canon.com, this flash is compatible with all Canon Electro-Optical System (EOS) cameras,...

Many hunters, outdoorsmen and nature photographers enjoy the convenience and flexibility of trail cameras, appreciating the ability of the devices to capture an image without human intervention....

The Canon A85, like most compact digital cameras, has a built-in flash that brightens the subject of a photograph for better exposure. Though it works without problems on most occasions, the A85's...

The Canon Powershot A60 is a 2 megapixel digital camera released in 2003. The A60, like most digital cameras, may not operate as expected from time to time. Problems with the battery, exposure and...

The SB-800, discontinued in 2008, was Nikon's premier flash for several years. It offered wireless capability as a master flash or as a slave that could be triggered by the on-camera flash of many...

Canon and Nikon are among the leading producers of top quality digital cameras in the world. Two of their competing models, the Nikon D70 and Canon 350D, bring a lot of professional features to...

The Nikon N65 is a 35mm camera released in 2001. Among the many features of the N65 is a built-in flash, known as a Speedlight. The Speedlight on the N65 is an automatic pop-up flash that helps...

Whether you're shooting a photo of your kids running through the sand or of your son kicking a soccer goal, the term to remember is action. Action photography requires the right camera and the...

When shopping to pick the best digital camcorder, there are several key elements to take into account in order to save time, money, and the frustration that can often be a part of electronic...

The Canon Rebel's flash feature allows its user to photograph subjects in indoor environments, environments with low light, and when backlighting is problematic. Part of correctly knowing how to...

Sigma flashes have a number of features available to help gain the right lighting for the images you want to take. However, none of these features will be of any good if you don't first know how...

Taking photos outdoors on a clear or even a cloudy day provides plenty of light. But there is such a thing as "too much light" in a photograph. Sunlight is very direct and will cast hard,...

The world of digital SLR cameras is riddled with accessories, one of the most popular being external flashes. Canon, one of the leading manufacturers of digital cameras, with its flagship EOS...

Getting a good family portrait that everyone is pleased with isn't easy. Children may make this especially difficult by either playing around or getting bored and giving the final photo a bad...

Canon offers several different models of speedlight for a variety of applications. Its two top standard style flash models are the 430EX II and the 580EX II. Both are excellent flashes and can be...

Most Camedia cameras are known for having a good, solid battery life and decent image quality. They are simple to operate and produce high-quality motion pictures. As with any camera, however,...

The best way to shoot any photograph is under lightly clouded skies outdoors. Clouds diffuse the sunlight and give you wide-spread even light. You can't always shoot under these conditions,...

Every photographer has taken a picture of people where their eyes showed up as with a devilish red hue. Red eye occurs when a flash is used in a low-light situation, but there are ways to avoid it.

A Polaroid camera is a popular brand of instant camera. Its film creates photos immediately after a picture is taken. Polaroids were widely used in the 1970s and 1980s, but saw a decline in sales...

The Nikon SB-600 is a powerful external flash that can be used for all but the most demanding flash applications. As an added bonus, the SB-600 can be setup as a wireless slave flash in the custom...

The Canon Sure Shot Z115 is a point-and-shoot 35mm camera. The champagne-colored consumer camera has automatic film loading, advance and rewinding to make taking pictures a snap. if you have...

The Nikon SB-800 was Nikon's premier flash from 2003 to 2008. It was replaced by the SB-900. The SB-800 offered wireless control of other flashes, a built-in bounce card, an attachable diffusion...

Hard-drive camcorders and flash-memory camcorders are both tapeless and completely digital. There are many similarities between these two types of camcorders, but also many differences. Each has...

Light is one of the most important aspects of photography. Most SLR cameras come with an internal, built-in flash. Internal flashes are adequate for most situations; however, an external flash...

Using your Aiptek A-HD camera you get washed out photos, every photo everyone is too blown out white, we can fix it easy, with a simple common bar napkin.

The Olympus is an all-weather camera with seals and coatings to resist water, snow and dust. It has digital image stabilization technology, so you can use a high ISO and a fast shutter speed--even...

The Nikon Coolpix 5700 is a few years old now, so it's possible you could encounter a few problems with it. We'll take a look at some of the more common problems that you could encounter.

Canon's Speedlite external flash system can be used to harmonize different light sources and to fill flash for a natural look. The flash is not just a tool for getting a shot in poor light. Canon...

Digital photography has taken off over the last decade. Cameras are smaller than ever and still have excellent picture quality in the proper lighting. Ken Rockwell, author and creator of...

The Canon Speedlite 550Ex is one of Canon's premier flashes, built to work with SLR cameras that are equipped with a hot shoe---a connecting dock on the top of the camera---to provide better light...

The first consumer cameras introduced by George Eastman's Kodak Co. in 1900 were of the point-and-shoot variety. The Box Brownie was just a rectangular box with little more than a lens and...

The SB-800 was Nikon's top of the line external flash until replaced by the SB-900 in 2008. The SB-800 had a range of 2 to 66 feet (.6 to 20 meters), depending on the ISO, and used Nikon's...

In the world of new digital cameras, it is important to understand the limitations of the built-in flash which comes with your camera.

The Canon 580EX replaced the 550EX as Canon's top-of-the-line flash. It was smaller and lighter, but more powerful, and it recycled faster than the 550EX. It was also Canon's first...