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Olympus Pen E-PM1

27 November, 2011 (16:10) | Gear Guide, Uncategorized | By: Diarmuid

The rangefinder design of camera has been around for many, many years. Its popularity was at its peak midway through the last century. Camera makers have tried resurrecting this style of camera on and off over the years.   The advantage of the rangefinder was its compact size over its main rival the SLR. Some [...]

Nikon D5100 DSLR Camera

8 October, 2011 (14:30) | Gear Guide, general, newsletter, Uncategorized | By: Diarmuid

The Nikon D5100 is not Nikons entry level offering, which is the D3100. However it is a camera that offers more to those who want that little bit extra and satisfies the needs of the enthusiast on a budget. It is the replacement to Nikons D5000. Nikon D5100 The camera is smaller and neater then [...]

Shooting in Manual Mode

7 December, 2009 (22:00) | newsletter | By: Diarmuid

Cameras today do just about everything automatically except jump out of your bag and take the shot themselves, of course the technology is there to do that too! But with all this automation the full creativity and control of exposing an image can be lost. This is why at School of Photography, especially in our [...]

Motion Blur

22 November, 2009 (15:08) | newsletter | By: Diarmuid

In general we as photographers strive to get our images as sharp as possible throughout. However sometimes a bit of blur due to movement can add to an image, creating a sense of action or motion. A typical example of this is when shooting a waterfall or fast moving water in a river or even [...]