Have you ever noticed the “A” setting on the ISO dial on your Canon DSLR? “A” stands for auto ISO. Some people love it, some people hate it. Most people don’t fully understand it (and maybe that is why they hate it in the first place!). In this blog post I will try to explain […]
Cleaning your sensor in the middle of no...
Have you ever had this: While shooting out in the middle of nowhere, you notice a phenomena on your photograph in the sky. As it turns out, this phenomena sits on every photo in the exact same spot. From here on you can go the safe route and have your DSLR cleaned. But what if […]
16.384 shades of grey: Deepdive on ISOs ...
I recently got into a very interesting conversation online on the Canon EOS Digital Photography forum around Manual mode and auto-ISO. Interesting as this discussion may, be turned out there was an even more technical discussion from that one on how “This ISO thing” actually works and how a modern DSLR processes this data into […]
Reading Canon DSLR shutter counts
Ever wanted to know the shuttercount of your Canon DSLR? I did for my 7D. So I set off on the internet to find a way to do this. This blog post describes the how and what of my “quest”. Where you cannot get it from Shutter counts on Canon DSLRs is a little hard […]
Canon mounts, EF and EF-S and “L” explai
There are still a lot of people out there who don’t really know what EF, EF-S and L is all about. In this post I will try to clarify exactly what this is all about. Plastic versus metal mount Most Canon lenses feature a metal mount. In order to make lenses cheaper, some lenses have […]