BOSTON PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER-LOWELL/LAWRENCE AND NH) June Meetup

THE LENS

Most still cameras have four basic things in common.
1st – a light tight enclosure, which excludes unwanted light
2nd – a hole which lets in wanted light
3rd – a surface upon which the wanted light is projected, for direct viewing, or recording
4th – a device for controlling how long the wanted light, streams through the hole.

Sounds simple, and is simple, but today’s cameras have come a long way baby! At the next meeting we are going to discuss the modern photographic camera lens’s functions, and properties. There will be an emphasis on F/stops, and what they, all of them, can do for you. There will be a suggested, but NOT required, assignment, to take the principals of the discussion, and apply them to some photographs, of your own creation. I ask that you bring in some of your results, either on a flash card or prints, to the following meeting. We will spend the first half of that meeting reviewing the f/stop photos, and then move on to shutter speeds, and what they can do for you.

Both f/stops and shutter speeds can be ignored, and you can get lucky, if you set your camera to an automatic setting. Join us at the next meeting, for the beginning of a short series of cameras 101.