Tuesday Video Tips: The Truth About Megapixels
If you’ve purchased a digital camera in the last decade than you are very familiar with the megapixel-count, and how much of a selling-point it has become. But are megapixels…
Video
Tuesday Video Tip: The Basics of ISO
ISO, or International Standards Organization, affects the amount of light that hits the image sensor in the camera. In the film days, ISO used to be a measure of the film…
Tuesday Video Tips: Optical Image Stabilization 101
Image stabilization has been around for quite a while, but it’s only the newer “optical image stabilization,” or, OIS, that adjusts for shakiness caused by camera movement. OIS reacts to…
Tuesday Video Tips: How Color Depth (Bitrates) Affects Image Quality
Have you ever wondered why an old television or computer monitor has trouble displaying high definition footage, even if that monitor has enough pixels to correctly display it? Well in a…
Morocco From Above with a DJI Phantom 3 Pro
Videographer Bernardo Bacalhau took an 8-day trip through Morocco with his DJI Phantom 3 Pro and captured some stellar footage. You can check out more of Bernardo’s work on his Instagram….
Tuesday Video Tips: How To Wrap Those Pesky Cables
Does anyone honestly know how to correctly wrap cables and cords? Luckily someone does, and they were happy enough to share the process of “over and under” cable wrapping with…
Tuesday Video Tips: The Real Difference Between Image File Formats
Whether we’re sending a cell-phone photo to a friend or we’re converting our RAW files, we have all used JPEG files before. But what is a JPEG file actually good…
Tuesday Video Tips: The Basics of Aperture
Aperture is one of the most important technical aspects of photography, and being able to understand at least the basics of it will provide a photographer with a working knowledge…
Tuesday Video Tips: Image Sensors Explained
Let’s be honest, you don’t really know how the image sensor in your camera works – but that’s okay because most people don’t! Not to fear, the great people over at…
An Easy Way To Memorize the F-Stop Scale
Have you ever wondered how much more light an f/1.4 aperture lets in than an f/2.8 aperture? Well the answer might surprise you, because while f/1.4 might seem to be half the…