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Two Reasons For Using a Lens Hood

July 31, 2012 by Steve Berardi 8 Comments

Photo by lmnop88a (used under the CC-Attr-2.0 license)
Photo by lmnop88a (used under the CC-Attr-2.0 license)
The lens hood is an often overlooked accessory. I see a lot of people walking around without one. Or sometimes they have one on their lens, but they’re not using it: it’s put on backwards (the storage position).

So, to help remedy this problem and motivate you to always use a lens hood (if you’re not already!), here are two great things they can do for you: [Read more…] about Two Reasons For Using a Lens Hood

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: contrast, filter, flare, glass, hazy, hood, lens, lenses, protection, shine, sun, washed out

Introduction to Filters for Digital Cameras

October 12, 2010 by Steve Berardi 7 Comments

With film photography, filters were pretty important (especially for black and white images). And although they play a much smaller role in digital photography, there’s still a few filters you should be familiar with. So, here’s a brief introduction to some of them: [Read more…] about Introduction to Filters for Digital Cameras

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: accessory, camera, digital, filters, glass, gnd, graduated, multicoated, nd, neutral density, photography, polarizer, polarizing, ultraviolet, uv

Why you should keep your camera’s SENSOR super clean

April 22, 2010 by Steve Berardi 5 Comments

Last week, I wrote a post about why it’s important to keep your lenses clean, and included an example photo to help illustrate my point.

Well, it turns out I was wrong about what caused those dust specks in the photo: they were NOT caused by dust on the lens, but instead resulted from dust on the camera’s sensor.

I’d like to thank Eric Pohl and Michael Smith for kindly correcting my error (see their comments on the original post). And, please accept my sincere apology for being wrong about this!

As Eric and Mike pointed out in their comments, dust on your lens will rarely show up in the end photo because you’ll always be focusing much farther than the front element of your lens (which is where the dust is). Ron Brinkmann put together an excellent article with great examples that helps show this.

For dust on your lens to be visible as specks in your photo, you’d have to be focusing your lens to an extremely close distance (even closer than what most macro lenses can do). So, any specks of dust you see in your final image most likely were caused by dust on your camera’s sensor. [Read more…] about Why you should keep your camera’s SENSOR super clean

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: accessory, active pixel sensor, camera, clean, cleaning, cloth, cmos, dirt, dirty, dust, filter, focus, glass, lens, sensor, smudge, speck, water

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