Choosing The Right Equipment.

Photography 101

Choosing The Right Equipment

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Choosing the right equipment is always a very hot topic and difficult decision. There is a fine balance between professionalism and getting the job done. Unfortunately there is never a happy medium between the two and the two is merely two points on a linear line in maintaining points of reference.  a Professional Photographer will need versatile equipment that not only looks professional, but can meet all the requirements that they might encounter on a photo shoot.

Before we attempt to categorize equipment we will firstly dissect the need. Why are you going to take pictures. Personal Use, Scrapbook, Blogging, Amateur, Journalism, Professional and then comes the subcategories in each one. Money is not the only criteria. When you blog you need smaller files sizes and new cellphones does not give you a large scope of files sizes to start off with. So you end up with a mid range phone with extremely good quality photos that is to large for your application and kills both your bandwidth and uploading time as well as the bandwidth of your target market.

So let us start 

Personal Use 

Taking pictures of yourself, your kids, family outings and your pets. Here one need as high megapixels as you can afford. For the simple reason, due to the extremely high photo quality, you can always crop a subject matter and wide angle don't have camera shake, needs lower light conditions and has a much sharper focus and depth of field. This is all very confusing, but you will start understanding the various concepts as you work through the course material. So any Cell phone Camera with 8 Mega Pixels or greater.