First Camera Lesson

18.9.2014

Today we had our first lesson of working with the cameras, Adam wasn't here so Matt and Phil gave us a crash course in basic camera skills. The cameras that we used were Sony NX5 which costs around £2,500, which apparently isn't that much for a camera.

We started out by going into groups of 5, I was with Lauren, Kingsley, Ben, Jacky. We then took out all of the equipment out of their corresponding bags, starting with the tripod;

 We then had to attach the camera onto the tripod and by using the 'bubble' we had to find out whether the camera was level or not. We then learned 4 main functions of the camera which include: the focus, zoom, exposure and white balance, and where to find them on the camera. There are 3 main wheels at the front of the camera, from the lens outward the purpose of each wheel are, Focus -used to achieve sharp focus on an object they are zooming in on-, zoom-moving in and out to look closer and furthur from an object- and then Exposure-changes the lighting of the image.