Get your gear on! Join photographer, author, and educator Tim Grey every Friday for insights on camera gear of all kinds. In Photo Gear Weekly, Tim shares tips for mastering your camera's advanced features, recommends accessories that will streamline your shooting and expand your creative options, and spotlights hot gear—new and vintage alike—that you'll want to know about.

Topics Updated until November 2016:

• Introduction
• Inexpensive lon-range zoom lenses
• Using an underwater bag to product your camera
• Intro to B&H photo as a resource
• Understanding the purpose for the various filters
• The difference between prime and zoom lenses
• Knowing where to go for rental photo gear
• Old photography process: tintype
• Travel tripod options
• Back button autofocusing for faster framing
• Using custom white balance in tricky lighting
• Macro shots using and extension tube
• Understand how to purchase used gear
• Working with ND filters for longer exposures
• Using a focus rail for macro photography
• Unserstanding ways to clean a camera sensor
• Lens cleaning optins for best lens maintenance
• Intro to DSLR video options
• Options for recording audio on your DSLR

 

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