Manual Controls on 35mm Camera

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Scott Vallance from Vallance Image Productions. I’m here today on behalf of Expert Village.com. If you would like to see some of my work please visit my website at vipphotographic.com. On this video clip we are going to be talking about the manual controls on a 35mm camera. These controls are actually the same on most cameras but I am going to demonstrate them on a 35mm camera for you. Basically there are two: shudder speed and Fstops are apertures. We will talk about shutters speed first. On most cameras if you do not have your camera on automatic, there is a dial somewhere on the camera probably up at the top, and it will list different numbers. All these numbers are fractions with for instance 1000 up here means 1000th of a second, that is very fast. If you go down to the very bottom it would be like 1 second, 2 second, 3 seconds, 4 seconds. The shutter speed actually controls how long the light hits the film or the sensor in your camera. The second control is the aperture or Fstops. A lens actually has a diaphragm in the middle of it that controls how much light actually comes through the lens and what this does is it controls how much light actually hits the film or the sensor which is different from the shutter speed which controls how long it hits the aperture of this sensor. The aperture actually controls how much light. There are numbers on your lens and these are all F numbers as in F5.6, F8, F11. The higher the number the less light comes through. Those are the two basic controls on almost every camera out there. If you have an automatic camera most of this is done for you. Thank you. "