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Learn How to Use Your Camera’s Meter to Get the Perfect Photo Every time!

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Learn How to Use Your Camera’s Meter to Get the Perfect Photo Every time! Once you have an understanding of the exposure triangle and how to adjust the shutter speed, aperture and ISO on your camera, you need to be able to figure out the correct exposure. If you tap on the shutter release button that will activate the camera’s meter. You can then adjust the meter until the light show you have the correct exposure. However, the camera’s meter can be off. Depending on whether the scene has a bunch of white or black, the meter can over or under expose. Just use the meter to get close. A camera’s meter, meters off 18 percent gray. We will take a look at how to use the camera’s meter, and how to make equivalent exposures.

The Exposure Triangle

  • Shutter Speed: This controls motion in the image, and the amount of light that enters the camera.
  • Aperture: Read in F-stops. This controls “Depth of Field,” and the amount of light that enters the camera.
  • ISO: This controls the sensitivity of the cameras sensor, and the amount of light that is needed to take a photograph.
Example of a camera's meter.
Example of a camera’s meter.
Camera Memory Cards
Camera Memory Cards

Camera Memory Cards

Above are a series of camera memory cards. The blue is a the slowest 32GB SD Class 4 card made by SanDisk. (SanDisk makes excellent cards) The black extreme pro by SanDisk is a 32 GB SD Class 10, and UHS Class 3 card. The Gold is a SanDisk 32 GB Compact Flash UDMA 7 card. The second black SanDisk extreme Pro is a 128 GB SD II Class 10, and UHS Class 3 card. The SanDisk Extreme Pro is a 62GB CF express card. The last is a Sony 64GB XQD card.

Pros and Cons of DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras

If you have not heard, the DSLR market is on its way out and the Mirrorless market is the future. The main issue with the switch from DSLR to Mirrorless has been the mount change with Canon And Nikon. Yes, you can use an adaptor mounts to convert old Canon and Nikon lenses to work on the new mirrorless mounts. If you are using Sony no worries because they only make Mirrorless camera and nothing has changed.

DSLR PROS

  • Cost
  • Used Market
  • Range of Options (Lenses)
  • Image Quality
  • Third Party Options
  • Cheap Memory Cards

DSLR Cons

  • Market is moving to Mirrorless (The Future)
  • Mirrorless uses New Mount
  • Technology
  • Video Technology

Mirrorless PROS

  • Newest Technology (All new cameras will be mirrorless)
  • Electronic Shutter
  • Video (IBIS)
  • Fast Memory Cards

Mirrorless Cons

  • Cost Until Market Corrects
  • Limited Used Market (Used lens can work with an adaptor)
  • Limit Lenses and Third Party Options
  • Expensive Memory Cards

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