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Sony has launched its fastest ever lens for Alpha cameras: a 50mm F1.2 GM (or ‘G Master’) lens that’s aimed at professional street, portrait, and video shooters. This isn’t the first 50mm lens in Sony’s full-frame E-mount lineup – there are no fewer

Shutter speed is all too easy to take for granted. Along with your camera’s ISO sensitivity setting and the aperture you set, it’s one of the three variables that you need to balance in order to produce successful exposures. However, it’s far more th

A fast shutter speed generally refers to a speed that’s around 1/250 sec or faster, but any shutter speed that’s faster than the safe hand-holding speed for the focal length you’re using could be considered fast. Of course, the chief practical benefi

Set the AF mode to Continuous mode (AI Servo). This will tell your camera to adjust the focus when it notices any changes in the scene, so long as the shutter button is kept half-depressed. If your lens has a built-in image stabilisation function, ac

A slow shutter speed has the opposite effect to a fast one, in that it causes any movement within the frame to become blurred. The amount of blur will largely vary depending on the speed of the moving subject, as well as the duration for which the sh

Sitting directly in front of a camera’s sensor is a thin curtain – the shutter. Every time you fully depress the shutter button to take a photo, the shutter will rapidly move out of the way of the sensor, exposing it to the light entering through the

If you’ve ever used your camera’s pop-up flash, you may have noticed that when setting the shutter speed the camera won’t allow you to go higher than 1/200 sec or 1/250 sec. This is due to something called the flash sync speed. Using a flash while sh

Shutter speed, aperture and ISO are the three elements of the so-called exposure triangle. You need to balance each of these in order to achieve a correctly exposed image, while also thinking about their aesthetic qualities. Shutter speed controls fo

Once you’ve got to grips with the basics of how fast and slow shutter speeds affect images, it’s time to get really creative, and there are a plethora of different ways that your newly acquired shutter-speed knowledge can be put into practice to crea

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The World Nature Photography Awards are a relatively new addition to the awards circuit, but they’re certainly a very welcome one, judging by the standards of the winning and commended images in the 2020 competition, which have just been announced. C

If you aspire to become a pro photographer, want to expand your existing business, or simply learn a new technique, interior photography is an extremely useful genre to master, and it doesn’t require much kit. To hone your technique, the first step i

http://uk.leica-camera.com £3,975/$4,895 Like any new camera from Leica, the SL2-S might be expected to have both exceptional build quality and an eye-watering price point. But while the Leica SL2-S is more expensive than Panasonic alternatives like