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How to clean your digital SLR camera

Digital Living Your dSLR will have a sensor cleaning mode. This involves locking the shutter open to gain access to the sensor. Your camera's sensor is too delicate to completely expose it to the elements, so it has a protective filter in front of it known as the...

Tags: elements, environments, cleaning, surface

17 September 2007, 11:55

What's the best type of image stabilisation?

Digital Living Mechanical image stabilisation detects the tiny vibrations from your hands and compensates by fractionally moving the image sensor inside the camera. Some dSLRs also move the sensor, while some dSLR lenses move elements of the lens to steady the...

25 July 2007, 13:16

Canon EOS 30D

Digital Living The EOS 30D has a bigger screen than the EOS 20D, along with spot metering and more durable shutter mechanism -- but the sensor resolution hasn't been increased. Is 8.2 megapixels enough for you, or will you be looking for more?

3 March 2006, 15:05

Canon HV10

Digital Living Take £800 out of your pocket and you should have space for the Canon HV10, a compact camcorder that squeezes enough pixels on to its sensor to record 1080i hi-def video. Is this little camcorder a big star?

27 October 2006, 13:20

What kind of camcorder is best for night-time shooting?

Digital Living In the same way that stills cameras automatically decrease shutter speeds when it gets darker to give more time for light to fall on the image sensor, camcorders will automatically lower the frame rate as available light decreases.

Tags: cameras, night, camcorders, camcorder

19 September 2007, 17:13

Better digital photos

Digital Living By increasing your ISO speed from 100 to 200, 400 or more, you're essentially increasing the sensitivity of your image sensor. The easiest way to low-light shooting success is to get an external flash, but that's not always practical.

3 August 2006, 16:09

How can I take pictures without flash?

Digital Living The sensitivity of the sensor is measured using the ISO rating, which is adjustable on digital cameras (on a film camera, it depends on the film you use). I have a Nikon Coolpix digital camera. It's a good camera and easy to use.

13 December 2006, 11:58

Mobile phones to upgrade your life

Digital Living For most of his photographic endeavours he likes to use a Nikon D80, which features a 10-megapixel sensor and an 18-135mm, f/3.5-5.6 kit lens. Meet the upgraders We found four unhappy mobile phone owners who yearned for phones that would do more...

28 November 2006, 16:06