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Autofocus Technology

By Jeff Kontur on Monday, February 21st, 2011 | No Comments

The information I am about to convey is NOT important to knowing how to take good photos. It may help you understand the technology that drives your camera. Then again, how well do you understand the technology that drives your car’s engine? Or the light switch on the wall? Okay, with that out of the [...]

High Shutter Speed

By Jeff Kontur on Thursday, January 27th, 2011 | 6 Comments

Let’s discuss a question from community member R. Fraga, “I thought that a high shutter speed should only be used to photograph something in movement but today I heard that high shutter speed is also used to have more depth of field, is that right?” Shutter speed, in and of itself, really only controls whether [...]

Is there any way to “fix” a blurry picture?

By Jeff Kontur on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 | 34 Comments

This question comes to us in an email from valued reader L. Jackson, “Is there any way to fix a blurry picture“? The short answer is… not really. Once a picture’s been taken, there are only a handful of things that can reasonably be done to it to fix minor imperfections. Correcting blurriness would involve [...]