Almost all modern SLRs have a focal plane shutter. A focal plane shutter goes by that name because of its placement. It is placed right in front of the film, or sensor, in the focal plane.

What should you do in case you are shooting outdoors and the sun is so bright that, even at the lowest aperture, opening your camera light meter shows over exposure? In such a situation you should use a neutral density filter.

Most of you would have often wondered why we need to use a UV filter whenever we are shooting in Sunlight? To answer that we first need to understand what UV light is and why is it harmful in photography.

A number of you might not have ever come across a rotary shutter camera. All cameras do not have the same kind of shutter mechanism. Different types of cameras have different shutter mechanisms that increases their utility in particular conditions.

For those who have no clue about photography, you must be wondering why the word ‘shutter bug’ is often used interchangeably with camera.

Most of us believe that f stop and focal length are the only two parameters for judging a lens. For the uninitiated, lens speed is another deciding factor when it comes to lenses. A lens can be termed a fast lens or a slow lens.

How many of you are aware of the fact that the concept of camera is based exactly on the same principle of working as our eye. Our eye and a camera have a lot of similarities. Just like a camera has a lens, our eye also has a lens.

Parallax might sound like a very complex term, but it is easy to understand. It is a kind of error that comes in the position of a fixed point or object, if it is viewed by two different points in the same plane.

Have you ever noticed your picture to be a little grainy, regardless of whether it was clicked by a manual camera or a digital camera?

Have you ever checked what speed or what ISO your film is set at? Do you know how fast your stock is, and do you set the exposure accordingly?