Using 35 mm Lenses with DSLR

For those of us just starting out into the world of serious photography, it is expensive.  Very expensive.  Aside from the high cost of the camera, is the cost of lenses.  I always thought you needed two lenses, a long and a short one.  It is laughable how little I knew about how cameras work.

But for most of us, purchasing multiple lenses at several hundred to a few thousand dollars each is just an expense we can not justify.

Luckily there's an alternative.  With many new interchangeable lenses you can buy an adapter allowing you to mount old 35 mm lenses to them.  You can pick the old lenses up for a fraction of the cost of todays lenses that go with your camera.

Sony Nex Series Camera Review

I have tried a lot of different camera.  I am not an expert, but I have played with a few high end DSLR cameras and a bunch of point and shoot cameras.  None of them have come close to being as easy to use or producing the image quality as my new Sony Nex 5T.

GE X400 Ultra Zoom Review

I have tested several camera's the last few weeks trying to find one that suited my needs.  I settled on the Sony Nex 5T.  But I needed something that took fast photographs for sports.  The GE X400 took satisfactory pictures, but it just was not fast enough for my needs.

The image quality was excellent.  The ultra zoom got me close to the action with minimal blur, but the problem I had was the speed I could shoot the photographs.  The GE X400 only took a photo about every half second.  For most people that is probably fine.  But for sports I ended up missing the exact shot I wanted.

Digital Camera for Beginners

I am new to the world of advanced photograph.  I have used a point and shoot or a camera phone for years taking thousands of pictures.  But I was unhappy with the results.  It was time to upgrade.

But the information I found on the Internet was complex and designed to provide information to people who already knew the basics of ISO, aperture, depth of field and other complex terms I did not understand.

Finding information for a beginner like myself was extremely hard.  Even the beginner information was given in a manner it was difficult to understand.

So I created this blog to go over what I have learned about how to create certain effects as well as the equipment I am testing out.

This is still a learning process so bare with me.  I will explain things as I understand them and as I gain experience through trial and error.

I hope you find this blog informative and useful.  Please feel free to tell me I am wrong, suggest better ideas or tell me I awesome and this is the best blog ever ;).

Ultra Zoom Cameras

If you are just a very basic photographer who wants to be able to get close to the action without fumbling with settings, this is probably the easiest and best way to go.  I tried a few of these cameras and found impressive results.

It was not quite the clarity or speed I wanted, but definitely a huge step up from my digital camera.

Some of these cameras can be had for just over $100, a very reasonable price.  Many offer 20x -50x zoom capabilities which is extremely impressive.

The clarity on my pictures was more than acceptable.

The big issue I had with these cameras was the same you will see with most point and shoot cameras.

They were slow and did horrible in low light situations.  They also produced a lot of very dark shadows.

Why Your Camera Phone Will Not Take Good Pictures

Camera phones have come a long way from the .3 megapixel phone I had a decade ago.  When I bought my new phone I was excited because it was 13 megapixels.  I thought great this thing has more megapixels than my camera and will therefore take better pictures.

Wrong.

Unfortunately the camera makers have lead those of us who do not know better to believe everything is about megapixels.  To be honest most people will never need more than 8 megapixels.