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Today we will talk about one of the many buttons on our cameras. If you have a point and shoot camera you might find this under your Menu settings. Quickest way to find it is to look it up in your handy dandy camera manual. You’ll find that your manual is your very best friend and you should keep it handy. { I still haven’t memorized all 324 pages of mine.}
There are three ways to control the light that reaches your camera sensor. Your aperture, your shutter speed and your ISO. ISO is the scale that is used to indicate how much or how little light effects the sensor. Originally ISO referred to film. ISO is an international scale . To keep things simple they still use ISO even now in digital camera’s. {YAY for simplicity}
If you set your camera ISO to 100 you will need quite a bit of light to record an good image. Now, on the other hand if you are inside, in the evening taking pictures of a birthday cake full of candles you’ll want a much higher ISO such as 800 or 1600. Every technique will have some pros {YAY} and some cons {Boo}. The downside to using a high ISO will always be the fact that you will see more “graininess” in the image. Especially if you enlarge the image for display.
I strongly encourage you to find your ISO setting on your camera and play with it. Take several shots of the same thing and just change up your ISO settings and see for yourself the difference between ISO 100 and 800. Practice makes you better every time!
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Holly
