Here’s the summary of Kindergarten lessons.

SD card and xD card ain’t the same thing.
Photography is all about light.
You manipulate the light to your will.
Minus the Force, Luke.
A camera works by letting in a specified amount of light.
Through a specified size of opening.
Within a specified amount of time.
To a specified medium.
Putin is a President of […]

Third Step:
Controlling the specified amount of light hitting a specified medium, a.k.a controlling the medium sensitivity or ISO.
You have mastered the arts of aperture and shutter speed. Heck, you can even tweak the settings to its best without batting an eyelid. But no matter how good you are in adjusting apertures and shutter speeds, it […]

Second step:
Controlling the specified amount of light entering within a specified amount of time, a.k.a controlling shutter speed.
A shutter is a, well, thing that shut. There are many kinds of shutter, but we are discussing about shutter curtain, a component in a camera (hence the photography blog).
 

As you can see, a shutter curtain (known as […]

First Step:
Controlling a specified amount of light through a specified size of opening, a.k.a controlling the size of camera aperture.
For those who don’t know jack about aperture, think of it as the opening for tap water. The more you open it, the more water flow out of the opening. Oh, don’t forget to replace […]

I’m assuming you have done your share of bustling through city traffic, arguing with the store owner (I want SD, not xD card!), and finally got yourself your very first (or second, or third) digital camera, or simply known as digicam (and I think you already knew this).
Now, we’re gonna walk side-by-side towards the wonderful […]