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Photographers Workshop ~ teaching photography for 25 years

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Understanding Your Digital Compact Camera

Subject areas covered

Part 1: Introduction to camera components, overview of camera controls, identifying controls, accessing menus, camera information displays, mode control, basic scene assists, portrait, landscape, sport, night scene, macro, memory card, memory use, battery use, auto focus controls, drive

Part 2: Exposure, ISO, metering patterns, aperture controls, depth of field, shutter controls, subject movement, camera movement, exposure compensation, additional scene assists, beach/snow, sunset, night landscape, museum, fireworks, backlight, party

Part 3: Image quality, memory size, file size, file type, resolution, JPEG, RAW, white balance, colour options

Part 4: Flash modes, auto flash, forced flash, red eye, flash exposure compensation, downloading, browsers, file management, backup, printing, making best use of your camera, improving picture taking, composition presentation

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"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again." Henri Cartier-Bresson