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1. Idiots Guide For Using A Camera
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1. Title page
2. Content page
3. Mood bored
4. Information about old cameras
5. Digital camera
6. Things on a camera
7. shooting techniques
8. Shooting techniques
9. Rule of thirds

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4. In this day and time old camera’s are useless piece of equipment. The film is a spool of flexible
plastic coated with chemicals they are sensitive to light . To stop light spoiling the film. It is
rapped up in a tough light proof cylinder.
While taking a picture with a film camera, you have to press a button. This operates the shutter
which makes a hole (aperture) which opens up a little at the front of the camera. Which allows
light enter through the lens (a thick piece of glass or plastic mounted on the front). The light
causes a reaction which takes place and makes the chemicals to take a picture and store it in
front of you.
However this is nit the end, When the film is full, you have to take it to a drugstore to have it
developed. Usually, this involves placing the film into a huge automated developing machine.
The machine opens up the film container, pulls out the film, and dips it in various other
chemicals to make your photos appear. This process turns the film into a series of "negative"
pictures—ghostly reverse versions of what you actually saw. In a negative, the black areas look
light and vice-versa and all the colours look weird too because the negative stores them as their
opposites. Once the machine has made the negatives, it uses them to make prints (finished
versions) of your photos.
If you want to take only one or two photographs, all of this can be a bit of a problem. Most
people have found themselves wasting photographs simply to "finish off the film." Often, you
have to wait several days for your film to be developed and your prints (the finished
photographs) returned to you. It's no wonder that digital photography has become very
popular—because it solves all these problems at a stroke.
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5. Modern Camera
Digital camera look like an ordinary camera but work in a totally different way. When
you press the button to take a picture an aperture opens in front of the camera which
allows the light stream through the lens So far, it's just the same as a film camera.
From this point on, however, everything is different. There is no film in a digital
camera. Instead, there is a piece of electronic equipment that captures the incoming
light rays and turns them into electrical signals. This light detector is called a charge-coupled
device (CCD).
If you've ever looked at a television screen close up, you will have noticed that the
picture is made up of millions of tiny coloured dots or squares called pixels.
Laptop LCD computer screens also make up their images using pixels, although they
are often much too small to see. In a television or computer screen, electronic
equipment switches all these coloured pixels on and off very quickly. Light from the
screen travels out to your eyes and your brain is fooled into see a large, moving
picture.
In a digital camera, exactly the opposite happens. Light from the thing you are
photographing zooms into the camera lens. This incoming "picture" hits the CCD,
which breaks it up into millions of pixels. The CCD measures the colour and
brightness of each pixel and stores it as a number. Your digital photograph is
effectively an enormously long string of numbers describing the exact details of each
pixel it contains. You can read more about how a CCD produces a digital photograph
in our article on webcams.
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6. 1. C-MOS sensors
2. CDD sensors
3. Imaging sensor: a photo sensitive devise (its sensitive to light)
4. Microphone
5. View finder – see the images their is a eye piece connected to it.
6. SD card
7. Connecters – were you can connect to USB and HDMI leads
8. Battery (long lasting life) very sensative
9. Light (red light) at the front
10.Bottom off the camera connects to a tripod
11.Two record buttons
12.Thumb area on the side
13.General controls
14.ZOOM
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7. Focus
Is the clarity of the image the image needs to be clear and sharp not blurry.
There are two types of focus:
•Auto
•Manual
Auto focus only focuses on the lens area. It also adjusts it self to the object its
concentration on. Sometimes auto focus can be problematic it focuses it self.
Manual focus is controlled by the person
Exposure
The amount of light you have o your scene.
Overexposed theirs to much light
Underexposed the scene can go dark
More light comes the object looks darker
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8. White balance
Balancing the type of light two main categories of light:
•Day light
•Artificial light
Different kinds of lighting produces different kind of tone.
Colour temperature- different lights produce different colour temperature. When
the lighting conditions change there's a procedure you do. it super improves
the quality of the image.
There are four options on the camera:
•Auto
•Outdoor
•Indoor
•Manual 1 push
Sound
To monitor the sound on a film camera the best thing to do is put in head
phones
Composition
Is a adjustment to make the position camera. e.g. if your shooting a scene the
characters must be in the camera not half in.
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9. The best way to get the composition you need to follow the
rule of thirds. The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to
imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontally
and vertically) so that you have 9 parts. As you’re taking an
image you would have done this in your mind through your
viewfinder or in the LCD display that you use to frame your
shot.
With this grid in mind the ‘rule of thirds’ now identifies four
important parts of the image that you should consider placing
points of interest in as you frame your image.
Not only this – but it also gives you four ‘lines’ that are also
useful positions for elements in your photo.
The theory is that if you place points of interest in the
intersections or along the lines that your photo becomes more
balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with
it more naturally. Studies have shown that when viewing
images that people’s eyes usually go to one of the intersection
points most naturally rather than the centre of the shot – using
the rule of thirds works with this natural way of viewing an
image rather than working against it. above picture of the bee where the
bee’s eye becomes the point of focus
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