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FEATURES & USES• Eye level shooting• Small peep hole• Simple lens (focus free
with fixed apertures)• Basic settings
• Simple snapshots• Subjects 5-15 feet
away
Advantages: • Simple, easy to use• Inexpensive• Small• Portable
• No Control
• Parallax (an effect in photography where the image seen in the viewfinder is not framed the same as the image seen through the lens, because the viewfinder is in a slightly different position to the lens)
• Only good in simple, basic situations• No close ups or complicated
situations
Disadvantages:
Automatic point-and-shoot camera use circuit boards and electric motors, instead of gears and springs.
Features and Uses
• Aperture & Shutter speed control• Detachable/Interchangeable Lenses• Attachable Lens unit• Used for all types of photography
The mirror in an SLR camera directs the real image to the viewfinder. When you hit the shutter button, the mirror flips up so the real image is projected onto the film.
Advantages:
• Control• Versatility• Direct Image
Disadvantages:
-Complicated (numerous parts and features)
-Bulky (hard to carry)
Features and Uses
• Image on flat 2-D surface
• 2 separate lenses
• Professional high quality work
• Mobile shoots (fashion, portraits, advertising)
Advantages & Disadvantages
• Mechanically simple
• Great for Composition
• Cheaper and less prone to mechanical failure than SLRs
• High quality image
• View does not disappear (no shutter lag)
• Preferred by some professionals
• Reversed image on surface when viewing
• Awkward to use• No interchangeable
lenses• No zoom
Features and Uses• Developed in the era of the
daguerrotype (1840s-’50s)• Bellows form a light tight
seal• Large viewing screen• Large format film• Fine adjustments possible• High quality professional
work (portraits, still lifes, architecture)
Advantages:• High quality,
detailed image• Large viewing of
image on flat screen
• Highly adjustable
Disadvantages:
-Hard to Use
-Bulky (not portable)