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Kim Veller
In the age of smartphones and tablets, taking photos with a professional camera is quite a task. However, if you want to take the best photos possible, it is quite a challenge. For instance, if you want to take a photo of a special event, such as a birthday party, you will have to get a professional photographer to take the picture for you.
However, if you want to take pictures of your daily life, you can use your smartphone. If you have a Samsung Galaxy S9, S8, S7, or S6, you can use the built-in camera to take photos of anything and everything.
There are many such apps out there and it can get a little confusing when it comes to selecting one of them. In this article, we will delve deep into the features of two popular camera apps, and help you decide on a winner.
History:
The Camera Obscura (Latin for Dark room) was a dark box or room with a hole in one end. If the hole was small enough, an inverted image would be seen on the opposite wall. Such a principle was known by thinkers as early as Aristotle (c. 300 BC). It is said that Roger Bacon invented the camera obscura just before the year 1300, but this has never been accepted by scholars; more plausible is the claim that he used one to observe solar eclipses. In fact, the Arabian scholar Hassan ibn Hassan (also known as Ibn al Haitam), in the 10th century, described what can be called a camera obscura in his writings.
The earliest record of the uses of a camera obscura can be found in the writings of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). At about the same period Daniel Barbaro, a Venetian, recommended the camera as an aid to drawing and perspective. He wrote:
"Close all shutters and doors until no light enters the camera except through the lens, and opposite hold a piece of paper, which you move forward and backward until the scene appears in the sharpest detail. There on the paper you will see the whole view as it really is, with its distances, its colours and shadows and motion, the clouds, the water twinkling, the birds flying. By holding the paper steady you can trace the whole perspective with a pen, shade it and delicately colour it from nature."
In the mid sixteenth century Giovanni Battista della Porta (1538-1615) published what is believed to be the first account of the possibilities as an aid to drawing. It is said that he made a huge "camera" in which he seated his guests, having arranged for a group of actors to perform outside so that the visitors could observe the images on the wall. The story goes, however, that the sight of up-side down performing images was too much for the visitors; they panicked and fled, and Battista was later brought to court on a charge of sorcery!
How does it work?
Inside the darkened room, a pinhole in the exterior wall acts as a lens, which then creates on an interior wall an inverted projection of what is outside.The camera obscura or dark chamber is a piece of equipment designed to intercept rays of light as they passed through a small aperture which then formed an inverted or upside down image on a screen- neatly demonstrating in the process how light rays travel through the human eye. This happened in the late 16th century when lenses or angled mirrors were first used to re-invert the image, or make it the right way up -doing the job of the retina in the human eye.
Apart from its use as an entertainment medium, it was quickly taken up by artists for optical guidance- reflecting three dimensional objects onto two-dimensional surfaces and simplifying tonal values. The camera obscura changed the way in which artists viewed their work and even how they thought about it. Art was to become direct representation, rather than indirect recreation. Much attention was paid to recording ordinary domestic scenes whose subject matter was greatly enhanced by accurately observed levels of light.
The intraoral camera is an amazing diagnostic tool for viewing different angles in the mouth that we would not have been able to just a few years ago. The camera gives us the ability to view the entire mouth on a monitor so that we can get a closer look at any potential issues or problems that may arise. In addition, the patient will have the ability to see for themselves first hand the same images we are seeing. These digital images are also excellent for gaining procedure acceptance from insurance companies.
Has anyone been in the same situation and upgraded to the new camera module? If so how does it compare to iPhone cameras? Ie is the new camera module a worthy upgrade or will it still be sub par compared to iPhone5S
For camera speed, it probably depends on the picture format. I save in bmp lossless format, where processing is done in foreground thread and takes some time. But bmp lossless format is the main advantage and reason to use for me.
Unlike the SL, the SL2 does have a USB-C port which I consider to be the current gold standard for in-camera charging. You can happily travel without a charger and you can easily buy a replacement cable if you lose one or forget to take it.
Good points all. In my Fuji situation, I rely almost exclusively on the in camera charging in my X T2 with battery grip which has two batteries inside, both of which can be charged at the same time with the USB cable. (Annoyingly the one camera in the X T 2 itself cannot be charged in camera) However, I can rotate that battery through the grip quite easily as also the battery from my X T20 which cannot be charged in that camera but this means I do not need to take the charger of the X T 20 with me at all. So in camera/grip charging is as you say a great help and avoids leaving home without the correct charger. I also travel with a couple of spare charged batteries in my pocket and keep these topped up as necessary through the X T2 as above.. Could do with a bigger battery capacity however and this is another good reason to look forward to the X T4 which is announced on Feb 26th!
Camera obscura is a very old device. The oldest mention of its effect is by Mozi, a Chinese philosopher and the founder of Mohism, during the 5th century BC. He noticed that an image from the camera obscura is flipped upside down and from left to right due to light moving in a straight line. The Greek philosopher Aristotle noticed in the 4th century that light from a solar eclipse that passes through holes between the leaves projects an image of an eclipsed sun on the ground. The passing of light in a straight line was also noticed in Euclid's 4th century BC and Theon of Alexandria in the 4th century AD. Anthemius of Tralles, which designed the Hagia Sophia, used camera obscura in his experiments in the 6th century. Al-Kindi, an Arab philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician, performed experiments with light and a pinhole in the 9th century and proved the behavior of light again.
Early models were large and consisted of a literal room or a tent (Johannes Kepler used a tent.) Later, more portable variants were invented. They were wooden boxes with a lens instead of a pinhole that could be moved to provide a focus. They also had a mirror that rotated images and a screen onto which an image was projected. These cameras were the basis for early photographic cameras.
If my smartphone were to have the specifications of that one, I'd be drooling. Well, not true; but you know what I mean. I'm currently still using an XT1032 (Moto G 2013, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage, 5Mpx back camera, rooted optimized stock ROM). I must confess my financial situation is startling, yet this has allowed me to understand and optimize on certain vicissitudes. One of them is smartphone software, which as they come stock is far from adequate in my honest opinion. If I am to grab a new device right now my priority would be a known good one with nice and tested hardware with plenty of ROM development, as I can no longer stand any sort of unrooted stock system. I am an expert power user and for me the differences between a stock device and one with an optimized (debloated) rooted ROM is simply outrageous.
One major benefit of Camera MX is the photo editing tools you get as standard. You can adjust white balance and contrast, just to mention a few editing options. The GIF mode is another extra treat in this camera app.
The manual focus is reliable and responsive. Burst Mode can capture up to 50 frames per second. The camera hardware also includes settings for ISO, HDR, and white balance. The selection of composition overlays is cool too.
The portrait controls set Photoshop Camera apart from other Android camera apps. With selfies or portraits, you get an excellent array of controls. You can try bokeh effects, and the face light removes unwanted shadows.
The manual controls include focus, ISO, and white balance. You can select your shutter speed and you can shoot with the rapid burst mode. The level of control is definitely a step up from most default camera apps.
The main appeal for using Lightroom and a camera is the possibilities in post-production. You take a photo, and it loads straight into Lightroom, where you get all the Adobe tools. And it also supports RAW files.
The one hat many bloggers work really hard at is photography. From day 1 we are taught that excellent photography is the key to almost everything and we teach ourselves how to master the craft. Some learn quickly, others such as myself, learn slowly. No matter what, our cameras soon become an extension of us. We grow attached to our cameras and lenses and maybe even love them almost as much as we do our families (even though we all know we secretly covet that upgraded model next door).
Our cameras are very important to us. And guys... my camera isn't feeling too well. Just yesterday I was trying to take photos of these bacon brownies for you. The whole house smelled like delicious maple bacon and chocolate and we were all dying to dig into them, but of course, pictures first. I got my new shooting area set up and was taking a few test shots before I really started styling the set (in case you were wondering, styling basically refers to how I place the food in the photos, plus anything else I may add to the photo like a kitchen towel, or more bacon, etc). Then my camera shut down. Like completely shut down. I switched it on and off and nothing happened. I cleaned out the battery like a friend suggested and nothing happened. It was just... dead. But it would flicker back to life for a couple of seconds before shutting down again. I checked the battery life and it was still fully charged.
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