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Dave Johnson

"How to Do Everything: Digital Camera 5 edition"

Make sure
everything you are carrying is securely clipped to your body or otherwise secured. As an
aside, it??™ll be cold in the cabin, so dress accordingly.
?–  Be sure not to lean any part of the camera or lens against the airplane (such as the
window), because the vibration from the engine will ruin your photos.
?–  Set your camera??™s focus on ???infinity,??? since you??™ll be shooting at subjects that are very
far away. If your camera doesn??™t have a manual focus control, then it almost certainly has
a Landscape exposure mode (often one of the ???scene??? settings). One of the things that
Landscape does is set your camera to focus at infinity, so that??™s a good substitute.
Chapter 8
Push Your Camera to Its Limits
154 How to Do Everything: Digital Camera
How to . . .
?–  Take pictures in special color modes like black and white or sepia
?–  Decide when to use special color modes on the camera or wait and process images on
the PC
?–  Shoot a series of panoramic photos
?–  Add wide-angle and telephoto lenses to your camera
?–  Avoid vignetting when using add-on lenses
?–  Correct for distortion caused by wide-angle lenses
?–  Interpret lens magnification numbers
?–  Take a series of time-lapse photos
?–  Turn time-lapse photos into a movie
?–  Extend the life of your camera??™s batteries
These days, cameras are no longer just cameras.


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