Persuasive Essay On My Favourite Camera

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When you first get your brand new, expensive and sophisticated DSLR camera, you may be forgiven for thinking that's all you really need to take good photos... and, for a time, you're content to explore the myriad of features and settings that festoon the outer body of the camera, as well as those hidden among the many pages of your camera's bottomless pit of menus and sub menus.

This was my initial thinking, when I chose to "get into photography", as a hobby. However, it wasn't long after purchasing the camera and practicing using it on an almost daily basis, that I found myself wanting that bit more.

One of the reasons for purchasing the camera was because I'd ruined my eyesight over a period of a few years, by spending too much time working …show more content…

Graduated Neutral Density Filter Kit... When you look at scenes of contrasting light and shadow (such as out in nature), your own visual system is so sophisticated that, in one glance, you can see detail in both the sky and in shadier parts on the ground. However, at present, even the most sophisticated digital imaging sensor in modern DSLRs has difficult recording the details in the sky AND the details on the ground, or in less well lit areas of your scene, at the same time. You may have noticed this when pointing your camera lens at the sky and using the autofocus system - with the correct camera settings, the sky will appear nicely exposed (ready for you to take the photo), but the ground elements will tend to be dark (and maybe too dark for you to see the detail in the resulting photos). Conversely, if you focus on the ground elements, the detail in the sky will be washed-out and lost to the brightness - you may be lucky with some wispy detail, but it's nothing compared to how much detail you were able to get when focusing your camera directly on the sky, albeit at the expense of the ground detail. A solution for this is to use what is called a Graduated Neutral Density Filter, with square "ND Grad" filter kits being the preferable option. With the ND Grad Filter kit, such as the Cokin P Series (H250A), which I purchased for my Panasonic FZ1000, you will need a Ring Adapter, which screws directly onto the lens (this is usually a separate purchase from the rest of the …show more content…

These are basically individual metal rings that screw together, enabling you to screw one ring onto your lens, another onto your chosen filter, and however many intermediate sized rings it takes to help you either "step up" or "step down" from the lens to the filter.

It should be noted that it's preferable if your lens is smaller than the filter (and not the other way round) because, if you're trying to step down from a larger lens, onto a smaller filter, then you will encounter "vignetting", which is when you see black edges around all of your images - these edges, in this case, will be the stepping rings that are getting in the way of your DSLR's sensor.

The Stepping Rings typically come as a multi-piece kit (mine are branded K&F - look for Metal Adapter Stepping Rings Set, on Amazon) - and, despite the number of rings in the kit, you won't be using ALL of these adapters, just one ring for the lens, one for the filter, and, as already said, however many other rings it takes to join to two target units

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