This is a collection of pieces of advice to make your everyday photos more enjoyable to look at; a little more with every post. These are only bits which do not claim to be complete, but are rather all you need to know at that moment.
I assume my readers are non-professionals who are interested in capturing their memories in the way they have experienced them, instead of how their camera device automatically suggests an output, thereby speaking of using anything from a mobile phone to an auto-set DSLR.
About the author: I am
Mareen Fischinger, a
professional photographer, living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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On most snapshot and bridge cameras, it is possible to turn off the so called digital zoom in the settings menu.
I advise you to do so, because the digital zoom is nothing else but artificially cropping the photo you would take without it and fake-repeating the pixels (called interpolation) to get back to the original size. (more on Wikipedia)
Optical zoom is something that you should look for when buying a camera. Because this time, your camera’s optics are actually making physical movements to acquire a real zoom.
