Photography enthusiasts hope to have their own set of photographic equipment to shoot more advanced photography works. The range of photographic equipment is very wide. In addition to the well-known cameras, there are also lenses, tripods, color filters, flashes, reflectors and other photographic equipment accessories. Do you know how to buy these photography equipment? How to maintain photographic equipment? How to use photographic equipment to shoot good works? If you are a photography enthusiast, you may wish to take a look at the photography guide in this article.
DSLR
Advantages: Reflective framing, more accurate framing, higher image quality, rich lens options, manual adjustment of parameters to obtain the best shooting effect, Rich accessory equipment.
Disadvantages: Large size, poor portability, slow framing, insufficient framing flexibility, complex professional control, high price, and large investment in later upgrades.
Shop: Identify the purpose, determine an acceptable price budget, and choose a model from your favorite brand. Nikon is good at landscapes, Canon is good at portraits.
Price: Several thousands to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.
Suitable for the crowd: High-tech creative tools, professional, users who really want to play photography. The SLR product line span is very large, so its products are involved from low-end to high-end.
Mirrorless
Advantages: The picture quality has indeed reached the level of DSLR, and the portability is not much worse than DC.
Disadvantages: No mirrors, slow focusing speed of the electronic viewfinder system, limited selection of lenses, and poor battery life.
Buy:Sony, Olympus and Fuji are all well-known micro-single brands.
Price: Thousands-tens of thousands
Suitable for the crowd: Mainly suitable for those who have higher requirements for image quality and portability high, while users who do not intend to specialize in photography.
Digital Cameras
Advantages: Cheap, portable and stylish. The degree of automation is easy to operate, and there are many interesting functions.
Disadvantages: The sensor is small, the image quality is average, and the shooting operability is low, which is not conducive to creation.
Purchase: Its function is not much stronger than that of mobile phone cameras, depending on what you need to buy, choose more professional ones from big brands.
Price: About 1,000 yuan
Suitable for the crowd:Applicable to general families, for primary users who have low requirements for taking pictures, However, this user group is also the largest.
Polaroid
Advantages: Instant, unique, non-reproducible, fashionable and portable.
Disadvantages: Poor first-pass image quality and high paper cost.
Buy: Polaroid and Fuji, look good, easy to buy photo paper.
Price: Hundreds-several thousand
Suitable for the crowd: Fashionable, young users with fun in life, young girls with a heart Toys, a variety of scenarios (hand account, growth book, photo book) to play.
Action Camera
Advantages: Anti-shake, waterproof, heat-resistant, drop-resistant, portable. The environmental requirements are not high, and it can be worn on the head, fixed on the car, flying, riding, etc.
Disadvantages: The battery life is not enough, the sensor is small, the image quality is poor, and the focal length is fixed.
Purchase: Abundant accessories can meet the shooting needs of different scenes.
Price: Hundreds-several thousand
Suitable for the crowd: People who like outdoor sports and record video, such as cycling , underwater, driving, climbing, skiing and other sports video capture.
2 cameras
Broadcast model
Features:High image quality, comprehensive performance, highest definition and highest signal-to-noise ratio.
Application: Professional broadcast and television field.
Price: Hundreds of thousands of yuan per unit.
Professional model
Features:The image quality is lower than that of broadcast cameras, and the quality is better.
Applications: Professional TV beyond broadcast TV.
Price: Ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan.
Consumer-grade models
Features:Suitable for home use, small size and light weight, easy to carry and easy to operate.
Application: Non-business situations where image quality is not critical.
3-lens
Zoom lens
Wide-angle zoom: The wide-angle zoom lens is the first choice when taking extremely expansive photos. Even small changes in focal length can have extraordinary results.
Standard Zoom: A commonly used lens that captures ideal photos from wide-angle to telephoto. Suitable for beginner photographers, both portraits and landscapes can be taken into account.
Telephoto Zoom: It can instantly zoom in on the distant scene, and fully experience the bold framing and extreme background blur unique to the telephoto zoom lens.
Fixed focal length lens
Wide-angle fixed focal length: It can capture scenes beyond the normal angle of view, and the fisheye lens can capture a wider 180-degree angle of view.
Standard Prime: The charm of a standard prime lens lies in its true and excellent imaging capabilities, suitable for shooting a variety of scenes from portraits to landscapes.
Mid-Telephoto Prime: It can zoom in on the subject, create a great bokeh effect, and even freeze the action with a fast shutter speed.
Telephoto fixed focus: It can not only zoom in the distant subject with high magnification, but also greatly blur the background, so as to take a photo that highlights the subject.
Super telephoto prime: Whether you are shooting wildlife or sports scenes, the immersive depiction is unmatched by other lenses.
Shooting portraits
Suitable for shooting with fixed focus head 50mm (commonly known as header), 85mm, 135mm.
Scenery shooting
Suitable for wide-angle fixed focus (such as 14mm, 20mm, 24mm), wide-angle zoom (such as 15~85mm, 17~55mm) lenses.
4 Photography Accessories
Camera Filters
Additional lenses installed in front of the camera lens to filter natural light. Commonly used are UV mirrors, polarized mirrors, neutral grayscale mirrors, gradient mirrors, and soft light mirrors.
Flash triggers
Generally, they are used with various lighting fixtures in the studio. The flash trigger is installed on the camera, and the frequency band receiver is linked to other flash lamps.
Timer shutter remote control
It can cooperate with the camera to realize the operation of single shot, continuous shot, bulb shot, delayed shot, and set related parameters for scheduled shooting.
Body lens cover
Protect the lens, prevent dust from entering, and make the life of the lens and the shooting effect reach the best state.
TTL cable
TTL cable is also called flash off-camera cable. It can realize off-camera synchronous flash by connecting a SLR camera and a flash.
Shutter release
It is a must-have item for family gatherings and outings. Wireless shutter is more convenient and practical. The wired shutter is also a good selfie tool.
Tripods
For amateur users or professional users, the main function is to stabilize the camera to achieve a certain photographic effect.
Camera bag
The original intention was to protect the camera to a certain extent and play the role of shockproof and waterproof. The popularity of the camera has now become a “camera carrying system”.
Camera cleaning tool
Special vacuum cleaner, photosensitive element viewing glass (with lighting function), air blower, cleaning stick, special cotton swab, cleaning water.
Reflector
Use the reflector according to the needs of the environment, which can make the plain picture more full and reflect a good image light perception and texture.
SLR camera shooting skills
Use large aperture for portraits, 3-4x telephoto, small aperture for landscapes, shutter for moving objects, and press + for exposure compensation – key, white plus black minus.
Micro single camera shooting skills
Aperture priority is to manually define the size of the aperture, and the camera will determine the shutter speed according to this aperture value. Because the size of the aperture directly affects the depth of field.
Sports Camera Shooting Skills
Pushing the lens is a composition change from far to near. The scene, up and down, is often used to show the majesty and steepness of tall objects. The camera pans left and right along the horizontal direction to shoot the shot, similar to the state of people walking and watching in life.
Polaroid shooting techniques
The instant focus point is at the center circle of the viewfinder frame, and the subject will not be out of focus if you aim at the circle. When shooting in automatic mode, the lens distance is best at 0.5m-2m from the person, 0.3m-0.5m in macro mode, and 2m or more in landscape mode.
Camera Shooting Skills
Flexible and good at changing, both shooting and ingesting the scene, panning from the empty shot of the scene to the character, allowing the character to enter the empty lens screen, Shake out the scene according to the person’s viewing line of sight or walking direction, or push the panoramic person to the scene to end the video, so that people and objects can be organically integrated.
UAV Aerial Photography Tips
Forward is used to emphasize and highlight the subject being photographed, and the rearward lens can also be used to capture people or selfies, and to shoot around Often used to photograph iconic buildings, the traversing aerial photography technique has a strong visual impact.
Photography Accessories Tips
Filters: You will need a different size conversion ring for each size lens you want to use with filters.
Tripod: Take out the camera tripod, the next step is not to mount the camera, but to adjust the tripod first. Put the tripod in a flat position and fix the angle.
Flash: Simply turn the flash head up 90 degrees and aim it at the ceiling to fire. When the light encounters the roof, it will be diffusely reflected, which will disperse the light, so that the light can be spread on the face more evenly, and there will be no serious hard light.
SLR camera maintenance
Daily maintenance can be gently wiped with a clean soft cloth, usually pay attention to cover the lens cap and use the camera bag to reduce the frequency of cleaning and the amount of cleaning solution It will still be harmful to the lens and may bring some damp mildew.
Mirrorless Camera Maintenance
Use a lens cloth to wipe the entire exterior of the camera clean, use a pointed cleaning cotton swab to dip a small amount of cleaning solution, and gently wipe along the edge of the button or dial.
Action camera maintenance
Be careful to avoid violent vibration during use and carrying. Be careful to prevent heat, sun, dust and harmful gases to avoid damage.
Polaroid maintenance
Regularly use “Belle Pearl” to wipe the camera body, it can decontaminate and increase the brightness of the camera body, but do not spray it directly on the camera . First spray on a fine soft cloth and wipe the camera. Do not use ordinary paper towels to wipe the lens, and you should blow the dust on the lens with a leather tiger before wiping.
Drone Care
A small, soft cleaning brush is used to remove grime that may get trapped in the nooks and crannies of the drone. Canned compressed air can be used to remove grime from “sensitive parts” of the drone, such as next to motors or circuit boards.
Camera maintenance
First remove the wind and sand to avoid scratching the body or damage the mechanical parts during maintenance or operation, and then remove the moisture to avoid the accumulation of water vapor and cause the machine to rust The last step is to remove fingerprints or stains on the mirror and body.
Lens Maintenance
When cleaning the dust on the lens, you can use the operation sequence of blowing, brushing, and wiping, first blowing or dusting the large dust with a compressed air can. Blow off the lens, then you use a brush to remove small dust, and finally use lens tissue or lens cloth dipped in lens cleaning solution to wipe the lens in a spiral outward order.
