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Introducing My DSLR – Canon 450D/XSi

by Mandy May 20, 2009

I love gadgets especially cameras so I really enjoyed spending time looking at which DSLR I wanted to buy. And now I have my very own Canon 450D/ XSi, that I’d like to introduce to you and share some of the first shots I took with it. If you’d like to know why I upgraded [...]

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10 Must Have Accessories For Your DSLR

by Mandy May 15, 2009

This is a list of the top 10 items on my digital photography wish list (I have a Canon 450D) and possibly should be on your list too. Every photographer has a wish list, and the items on the list tend to range from the affordable and practical, to the absolute dream. I’m a gadget [...]

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What does Photography mean to you?

by Mandy May 6, 2009

For me briefly (because I’m prone to ramble), photography is an expression of what I see around me, and how it makes me feel. The trick is to then convey that in my photographs. Everyone is unique, and no 2 people will take a photograph or see a photograph in the same way, we all [...]

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How to Choose a DSLR Part 2

by Mandy December 9, 2008

So I’ve been scouring the internet looking at DSLR’s and reviews on them, even with a budget of £500 there’s still a lot on offer from all the big names like Sony, Olympus, Pentax, Canon and Nikon. The task I set myself was to narrow it down to a shortlist of 3 camera’s that I [...]

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How To Choose a DSLR

by Mandy December 2, 2008

This is the first of a two part series looking at what to consider when choosing a DSLR as an amateur photographer. So I’ve made the decision to upgrade from my modest point and shoot to a DSLR. But where do I start? There are so many to choose from, there’s a make and model [...]

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7 Reasons to Upgrade to a DSLR

by Mandy October 7, 2008

Want to upgrade your camera I want to upgrade my point and shoot camera a Traveler DC-5080. I’ve always known that if I decided to upgrade then I wanted to upgrade to a DSLR rather than another point and shoot. But I also want to share why I want to do this, and without further a do [...]

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Definition: Image Sensor

by Mandy June 27, 2008

Image Sensors are the nitty gritty end of the digital camera. Basically the digital version of film. Film camera’s took 35mm film, in digital camera’s the ‘digital film’ is called an image sensor. But there are lots of different types (or sizes) of image sensors, and this can be important when choosing a digital camera. [...]

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The Pro’s and Con’s of Digital Point and Shoot Camera’s

by Mandy June 22, 2008

Last week I looked at DSLR’s, so this week I thought I would look at the other side of the coin and look at digital point and shoot camera’s. Point and shoots are extremely popular digital cameras, which means there is a huge amount of models available and therefore a lot of choice out there. [...]

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What is a DSLR?

by Mandy June 13, 2008

There’s lots of fancy abbreviations in photography and they can be confusing, you can sometimes feel like you’re reading another language! So while weighing up the pros and cons of DSLR’s which I am doing at the moment, I thought it may be a good idea to start at the beginning and look at what [...]

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