Camera & Co.

The easiest way to make friends with your camera is to master it with as little effort as possible - that's what this is all about. For beginners who want to start with straightforward photography and for those who tend to be discouraged by too much camera technics.

Here's a path through the jungle of possible camera settings, along the manageable number of adjustments that really matter to the look of your photos.

The camera mode is the most basic setting, as it determines the entire camera behaviour. What happens automatically, what you can or have to do yourself – especially for aperture, exposure time, ISO sensitivity. The different camera modes are described and explained here.

The table of contents for pages on autofocus, from here you get to practical tips on autofocus operation and background knowledge on how autofocus works.

White balance fine-tunes colour rendition, especially between cooler and warmer colours. It is one of the more subtle settings – but important for the image atmosphere.

Histograms in digital photography look more complicated than they are. The left and right edges show you overexposure and underexposure and on this page you will find the necessary background knowledge.

The overview page for articles on image files in digital photography

The entry point to the camera models about which there is more to read on digital-photography.com