Camera Simulator



In my first ever "What I Know Of" post, I took a shot at explaining the exposure triangle.  The purpose of the post was to give a high level understanding of the concepts, but the only way to develop working skills with aperture, shutter speed, and ISO is to take your camera out of "auto" and shoot some pics!  Taking lots of photos at various settings and examining the results is what is going to give you an innate feel for how the controls affect the final image.  Well, Canon has a cool little web app that simulates a camera and let's you practice without a real camera.  It's not a substitute for logging hours with your meat world camera, but it would certainly help to learn what's going on and cement the controls in your mind, especially since the app has tons of help information that wouldn't be available on an actual camera.  Check it out...


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