By Roberto Sedycias


If ever you have seen a picture that is blurred, it is most probably because the camera was shaken while the picture was taken. With traditional photographic film cameras, it was evident only after the negatives and positives were made. However, with digital camera, the captured image can be seen immediately on the LCD screen, and if the image has shaken, then it can be discarded for a new shot.

Digital camera shakes are common with new users. This is primarily because, new users have not fully understood that the shutter-release button must not be pressed twice, but pressed two steps down. The first step locks the focus and exposure while the second step takes the photo. This pressing of the button has to be smooth, otherwise the digital camera shakes and a blurred picture is the result.

The shutter speed also plays an important role in blurring the picture. The shutter speed is the amount of time the shutter remains open to allow light to reach the digital camera sensor. It is measured in seconds or fractions of a second. An image is exposed by the combination of the lens aperture and the shutter speed. A slow shutter speed needs a small aperture (large F-stop number) to avoid over exposure. With a slow shutter speed below 1/60th of a second, over exposure is adequately controlled, but the digital camera is likely to vibrate more, giving a shaky picture.

A tripod is extremely useful to eliminate digital camera shakes. It is generally used by sports photographers who use long telephoto lens, as it helps in close-ups, landscape and panning shots, for timed exposures, for shooting at slow shutter speeds, and for taking photographs in low or dim light conditions. Shooting a fast moving subject, like athletes, or wildlife, tests the photographer`s skill and the equipment. In such cases, camera shakes are most likely to happen, and thus a monopod or a tripod is always used. Digital cameras mounted on tripods always tend to eliminate camera shakes and give sharp results.

A great feature in most high-end digital cameras available nowadays is image stabilization (IS). IS is an anti-shake and vibration reduction technology and is common in digital cameras with long telephoto zooms of 10X and 12X. With IS, sharp images can be obtained even if the camera shakes a little, a slow shutter speed is used, shooting is done in low light conditions, or a tripod is not used. IS was originally developed for video cameras. It is now available in interchangeable lens, consumer and professional digital cameras, which use optical image stabilization. Sports and wildlife photographers use a tripod and IS technology together to get the maximum sharpness of their photographs; however, many other photographers turn the IS feature off while using a tripod.

Digital camera shakes can be eliminated or minimized by the utilization of the above techniques. However, the fundamentals of taking a good shot prove to be most effective in avoiding camera shakes, in the absence of tripods, or IS technology.

The basics of good photography should be followed. You should hold the digital camera with both your hands. You should keep the legs apart with the knees slightly bent forward. Your elbows should be braced with your body and your body braced with some support, if possible. You should generally frame and compose the picture with the viewfinder and not the LCD screen. You should not jab but lightly press the shutter release button two steps down, and during that time, it would be beneficial to hold your breath to prevent any movement of the chest and hands. With this basic technique of good photography, you can be sure that your digital camera will not shake and no picture will be blurred.

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By : TJ Tierney

Having lost count of the number of people who have asked me: "have you gone digital?" I am always left wondering why it’s such a much-asked question. The camera is only a tool in which a photographer creates an image. His personal ability to create a unique image remains the same.

For many forms of photography, digital has long held obvious advantages, but for landscapes the resolution necessary to make larger prints just wasn’t available. But things have changed and digital cameras are fast becoming the tools that most pros use.

Modern digital cameras are perfectly capably of matching the 35 mm film - the format which most landscape photographers begin with. But can they really match the large format film cameras? This is probably the greatest question that all photographers face.

Instant LCD feedback is digitals greatest gift and this enables the photographer to check exposure and composition of their image in the blink of an eye. While this is a big advantage, the hours spent in front of the computer processing the raw images have to be a hindrance. A landscape photographers time is best spent behind a camera not in front of a computer.

The pros and cons of digital photography will remain an issue for some time. At the end of the day a digital camera won’t make a photographers images better. The same values we apply in our photography should remain regardless of which camera we use.

Good photography remains as elusive and as enticing as it ever was; going digital doesn’t change this or make getting good images any easier. It brings technical advantages, and plenty of them, but the majority of photographic techniques never change. Good landscape images come from the photographer’s personal ability, not the ability of a camera. The camera helps, but the creative eye remains the same.

As a landscape photographer I am still hesitant to embrace digital photography and all the qualities that digital has brought to other professionals in different photography fields.

There are a few simple reasons that I still use a film camera:

The authenticity of my images could be questioned if I used a digital camera. It is often assumed that great digital images have been manipulated.

Too much time is spent in front of a computer.

Slide film produce stronger colours than a digital camera.

There are many advantages for changing to digital but I’m going to stick with film; for the time-being that is. With time film cameras will be a thing of the past and all our images will be exchanged for the pixels. But, be wary - believing our work will be superior would be falling into a great trap. For me size matters, the larger I can print an image the better.

These days, digital camera especially consumer or compact digital camera have new rival and competitor.
At the beginning, this competitor was not imaging device at all,no one imagined that this gadget in the future would become serious competitor for digital camera and even analog camera.

Time goes by n rite now,this device has been evoluting into multiple purpose gadget. With this device, you only not able to capture image but even video! and with PIM feature that added lately, you dont need a secretary anymore.base feature from this device is a communication gadget,yes.. I am talking about mobile phone.
No doubt these days, mobile phone or cellular phone is very dangerous rival for camera or digital camera vendor. But since the use of analog camera has became less these days, i will focus only to digital camera.

Naturally, we don't like carrying many things in one hand when mobile. What we want is one thing that could handle everything. And people point to mobile phone for that thing. First, it's only a device with voice conversation only, and slowly but sure, it could handle text massage, then when the first lens installed to mobile phone (even it's quality was dissaster :D ), that is the day people realize that mobile phone could turn into camera!

since then, every mobile phone vendor race to install camera feature for their products to attract consumers. And when 3G technology had arrived,this lens is not just one installed,but 2! One for video call and other for capture moments.

How about digital camera? nothing has changed since analog hit by digital camera appearance. And now, we may say that analog camera is about to become history, defeated by many advantages of digital camera that couldn't offered by analog camera, such as:compact size, no more film roll, shoot with no worry run out film, and so on. digital camera decrease operational budget dramatically and increase productivity also dramatically.

Digital camera uses pixel resolution for image size, and it associates to the file size, the more high resolution you set, the bigger file size come.

Cionsider this camera when you are not ready holding DSLR camera. It looks like DSLR but smaller size. Come with combination of rubber and plastic material that usually used by proffesional cameras. All button position is reachable by single hand, but that hand will tired quickly since the design is not the same with pocket camera design.

Compared to its predecessor, FinePix 5500, there are no major upgrade to this cool gadget. The Fujifilm FinePix s5600 support 5.1 MP, with LCD size, and new choice of ISO. The dimension and shape is not change. The buttons in this camera is user friendly and easy to use.

Using it's own CCD censor that Fujifilm developed by it self, produce a high quality image, rich color, as real as the original view. This camera could handle noise good, even in the low light situation, the using of high ISO helps keep image stay sharp.

Using four AA Alkaline batteries as its power source, Fuji claimed that it could use to shoot 250 times. The volume is increase when you use Nimh AA. Even this camera doesn't equipped with hot shoe, but the built in flash is quite good with 5 - 6 meters range. Using TTL system for focusing with continuous and single method.

Like another prosumer digital cameras, this high tech gadget is also able to record movie with 30 frame per second speed.

This is the successor of the legendary D2x from Nikon. The same with its older brother, it come with WiFi (IEEE 802.11b/g) that uses CMOS censor with 23.7 x 15.7 mm size. It is 1.25 kg weight and also support GPS for adding location information in the description of photos.

Supporting max 12.4 MP (4,288 x 2,848 pixels) and features color changer that able to change color photo into black and wite photo, editing feature is also available. With this feature, it is possible to resize photo right in the camera by using the built it 2.5 inch LCD. Image cropping is also doable using High-Speed Crop. With this feature, you could crop 12.4 MP image resolution into 6.8 MP. The crop area is viewable through the viewfinder.