mike | 25 Nov 2011 | 609 Views | 0 Likes | 0 Dislikes

Cool Interactive DSLR Trainer-Thing!

A lot of the obstacles to taking great photos fell away once we all made the shift away from the 100 year old technology of silver magic atom chemical film spool fussing to the world of modern digital microchip magic photography (all of us except Tom B., resident friend and animation guy, who keeps bugging me to go to the "analogue camera faire" this weekend).

Once you remove the voodoo of the darkroom, with its chemicals and their inherent instability and enlargers and filters and paper and powder etc. etc. from the equation, you're left with a camera and its controls, all of which can be manipulated to provide certain effects above and beyond the manipulations needed to render a "proper exposure". What you see on the back of the camera is what you get, nowadays, you no longer need to send film to the mall or bust your hump mixing witches brews in your basement to see what you've shot. Unless you're Tom, and you like that sort of thing.

However, those controls that remain are still pretty baffling, as it's not exactly "gas=go, brake=stop". It's more "a lot of gas plus a little horn press plus playing the radio REALLY LOUD=going sideways at a hundred miles an hour, and if you want to parallel park, you need to either honk and gas while opening the glove compartment or honk, open the door and barf milk out the window, depending on what kind of tires you have". All of the controls do different things, and they all combine in different ways to change the exposure, the focus, the crispness of the image, etc. etc.

The traditional way of learning this stuff (beyond watching our videos) is to just get out there and fart around and experiment. While that's still the best Malcolm Gladwellian way to become a photo expert, allow us to present a shortcut: this website here. It's a really cool interactive DSLR simulator, that lets you change all of the different factors in a photo: ISO setting, aperture, lens length, distance from subject etc. etc., to see what effects they have on the photo. It's really cool, and we really like it!

Note: this is not it, this is just a picture of it. Click on the picture.

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