Digital photography equipment, camera components, exposure, exporting and storing files

A2 Digital photography production

Digital equipment:

• manual cameras – digital single lens reflex (DSLR)

• automatic cameras – digital single lens reflex (DSLR)

• hand-held devices – smartphone cameras, point and shoot

• large format cameras – plate cameras

• medium format cameras

• lightweight cameras

• extreme sports cameras – Gopro®, Drift Stealth®, iON® o recording both still and high-definition video.

Camera components:

• viewfinder

• digital shutter system

• lens – functions, types o image sensors

• aperture – f-stops o shutter

• memory – card, internal storage

• file storage – file formats (RAW, Jpeg, TIF)

• devices – hard drives, cloud, memory cards.

Lighting:

• flash – portable, hand-held, studio

• studio lighting – tungsten, light-emitting diode (LED), soft box, HMIs

• reflectors

• natural light

• colour temperature – warm, cold, degrees Kelvin.

Camera support:

• tripod o monopod

• hand-held

• drone.

Exposure:

• exposure triangle

• correct exposure

• underexposed

• overexposed

• auto-exposure bracketing

• HDR.

Exporting and storing of files:

• file transfer – from digital camera, from smart device, to computer, to hard drive, to cloud storage

• file formatting – Jpeg, RAW, TIF

• file compression – lossless, lossy

• storing – hard drive (file name, folder name), cloud storage (accessibility, access for a range of devices), external devices (memory stick, external portable hard drive, CD/DVD).