By David Gunn
A short and soiled advisor to making a hand held maser weapon.
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A live LCD preview lets you keep the camera a few inches from your face, or even at arm’s length, and still see what will be captured. Point-and-shoot digital cameras sometimes put the LCD on a swiveling mount so you can use it for framing with the camera held at waist level, overhead, or even facing you for a self portrait. Digital SLRs (except for a model from Olympus) don’t have this kind of swivel LCD because they don’t have the live preview that would make the capability useful. Infrared imagery up to your imagination Infrared photos call for a filter that blocks visible light.
So much is in focus with a non-SLR digital camera that, in practice, you have very little control over depth-of-field except when shooting close-up pictures from very short distances. ) Although the focus is on the building block in the middle, all the blocks are fairly sharp. 6 shows how control over depth-of-field can be used creatively to isolate a subject (see Figure 1-6). Only the middle left red block is in sharp focus, whereas the others are blurred. In Chapter 6, I explain depth-of-field in more detail.
If they want to take a lot of photos indoors or of architecture outdoors, they might need cameras with the equivalent of a film camera’s 24mm wide-angle lens, which is still fairly rare among non-dSLR models. ) Or, perhaps a photographer wants to shoot sports and would like a lens that’s the equivalent of a 400mm lens on a film camera. Those are available, too, although not, generally, with cameras that also have wide-angle capabilities. Digital SLR camera owners have fewer limitations. I own a 12–24mm zoom that’s the equivalent of an 18mm to 36mm wide-angle lens.