Care For Your Camera

Manual
Read the manual that came with your camera, and look for any hints it gives on using your camera.Some general rules:

Always handle cameras carefully - they can be damaged by knocks, jolts etc Don't leave ....
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Digital Camera Basics

Pixels and Beyond
Cells and Pixels
In digital cameras the light-sensitive medium is a silicon chip covered with a regular pattern of very small light sensitive circuits. When a few photons hits one of these it causes a few electrons to flow in a circuit. These ....
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Film Cameras

Formats
35mm film sets the quality standard for most uses, and also provides the widest choice of films. For some professional uses larger film sizes may be needed. Camera using 120 format film are called medium format, while those using 4x5" or larger sheet film are larg ....
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Lens Basics

Cost and Quality
Camera lenses cost from a few pence to tens of thousands of dollars, but all do basically the same job of making an image on the film or sensor. You can even take
pictures without a lens using a pinhole camera. Some high-budget advertising campaigns hav ....
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Photography Basics

Easier - Photography is the art or job of taking or making photographs. It is the creation of images by exposing film or a computer chip to light inside a camera. 
 
Harder - The word photography comes from Greek words meaning to write or draw wit ....
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