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Revised: 11 March 2023

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Camera Phones

When whatever doesn’t work

Quick tips

Ask Ananda a question or two

<aside> 🗣 Ananda’ Guidelines #2: Don’t tell the camera it can’t do this or that. What it doesn’t know won’t limit it.

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Camera Models

Market Share

Product Lines

Camera Release Timelines

Camera Models / PDF Manuals / Screenshots of pages

<aside> 🗣 Ananda’ Guidelines #3: Be inclusive of brand and model. Skilful use of gear within its performance limits works wonders.

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Mirrorless bodies

Operating Insights into Brands

Second hand gear

Not buying gear

Tethering

Updating firmware

Autofocus / Focussing / Sharpness

Focusing - Getting the subject sharp

Depth of Field

Motion Blur - the other cause of unsharpness

White Balance and the management of colour

Setting / Resetting / all of the camera controls

Take detailed note of your chosen Settings

Find how to save and restore Custom Profiles for daily use

Find how to reset the camera to factory defaults

SOOC JPEG vs raw image files

What does a JPEG / HEIF / JPEG XL /TIFF have baked in?

What are Picture Styles / Picture Profiles?

Photo Editing Software

Brand specific free (raw) editors

Free web based Editors

Free desktop computer editors

Microsoft Photos for Windows

Apple Photos (and how it handles raw)

List of Editing Software

Outputs

Achieving as close as possible reproduction of tones and colours

Image File Formats

Image Colour Space

Viewing on the screen

Printing to Paper

The Editing Process

The DAM (Digital Asset Management) Processs

Software Tutorials

Output Medium

Creating Engaging Images