Portrait and Landscape Photography Tips

Your sad, old camera will start to treat you better if you learn to take care of it. Every time I go to my nephews’ soccer games and see all the parents with their cameras on “green mode”, or attend a sporting event and see spectators using their flash from a quarter mile away, it makes me grit my teeth. It’s all I can do to stop from walking up to them and fixing their camera for them. This morning, I got to thinking. The readers of this site tend to be a bit more knowledgeable about photography than your average shutter snapper, so I wrote this one with the more advanced photographer in mind. Camera Tip #1: AI Focus and AI Servo are not interchangeable Nikon cameras only have single servo (AF-S) and continuous focus (AF-C) , so you don’t have to worry about this one. Trouble is that most users learn whether to use AI Focus or AI Servo for this situation, and most choose AI Focus since “Servo” sounds scarier. One writer online summarized it like this (and I totally agree): Cleaning a lens. Related: