Charging Batteries is one of the biggest stumbling blocks you’ll face when you travel. Outlets can be scarce in hotels. Charging your battery can be more of a hassle if you’re traveling by train: If you take an overnight train in Europe, they don’t have power adapters at the seats (certain trains do, but it’s [...]

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Depth of field is the commonly uses term to describe how much of an image is in focus and is predominantly determined by the size of the camera’s aperture. This effect can easily be explained and replicated by just looking around you. If you focus your vision on an object near to you, it is [...]

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You may often hear the terms ‘fast’ or slow’ to describe a lens or aperture. This has nothing to do with the speed of operation, but to the size of the maximum possible apperture (usually quoted as a suffix to the name of a lens). A Lens with a maximum aperture of f/1.4, for example, [...]

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