SLR Camera Simulator
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SLR Camera Simulator
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Re: SLR Camera Simulator
#2This is pretty cool, but the swaying girl gets a little creepy after spending any time on the site. Are there any other scenes available? It would be nice to have a "Change Scene" button.
Re: SLR Camera Simulator
#3It needs to give you the ability to use flash lighting. Then you could learn about how you can use flash to give a scene a completely different look, for example by using a wide aperture and short exposure to get the girl properly illuminated but have the background look very dark.
This works because the flash delivers all its light in a very short period of time so it is completely unaffected by the shutter speed. So once the flash power and aperture are set to give a proper exposure on the subject the shutter speed can be adjusted to give different levels of background illumination.
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#4One thing that would be invaluable simulating is a variable aperture lens rather than this constant f/2.8 simulation.
My girlfriend just got her first DSLR and was struggling with changing the aperture. While she understood the concepts, she wasn't familiar with working with a DSLR alone and since I wasn't physically present, it took me a while to realise over the phone she'd been changing the aperture by changing the focal length of the lens. (The D5100 has a pretty crappy and unintuitive control combination for setting aperture.) Had I been able to point her to a simulation like this it would have been clear to her that she needed a distinct method of setting aperture.
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#5This is neat. I like the advice that you give when the pictures are bad, but it took me a little while to get from "this picture is OK, but kind of blurry" to a good one. I guess I can't expect to pick up a SLR and get a good one on my first try!
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#6Is this the same SLR simulator I saw a couple of years back? Can't tell because it's Flash.
Seems to me like DSLRs don't really need simulators. Pick up a DSLR, dial it to P or green or whatever, and go. It's simpler and more responsive than a point and shoot, just bigger and heavier. (My four year olds love using my smaller DSLR and have less trouble using it than a small P&S.)
Anyone wanting to learn the fine points of photography can learn them at their leisure once the key point — using a DSLR is EASIER than using a point and shoot — is absorbed, and simulators that overload the user with information are probably counter-productive.
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#7One thing that would be invaluable simulating is a variable aperture lens rather than this constant f/2.8 simulation. My girlfriend just got her first DSLR and was struggling with changing the aperture. While she understood the concepts, she wasn't familiar with working with a DSLR alone and since I wasn't physically present, it took me a while to realise over the phone she'd been changing the aperture by changing th…
What?
To set aperture on a D5100 switch to A and use the command dial.
(Shooting in Manual mode is simply torturing yourself unnecessarily if you don't know exactly what you're doing. In Aperture priority — or Program shift — setting aperture is simple and intuitive.)
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#8One thing that would be invaluable simulating is a variable aperture lens rather than this constant f/2.8 simulation. My girlfriend just got her first DSLR and was struggling with changing the aperture. While she understood the concepts, she wasn't familiar with working with a DSLR alone and since I wasn't physically present, it took me a while to realise over the phone she'd been changing the aperture by changing th…
You can change the aperture in this simulation. Perhaps it was just grayed out since you were in shutter-priority mode?
Re: SLR Camera Simulator
#9One thing that would be invaluable simulating is a variable aperture lens rather than this constant f/2.8 simulation. My girlfriend just got her first DSLR and was struggling with changing the aperture. While she understood the concepts, she wasn't familiar with working with a DSLR alone and since I wasn't physically present, it took me a while to realise over the phone she'd been changing the aperture by changing th…
You can change the aperture in this simulation. Perhaps it was just grayed out since you were in shutter-priority mode?
It doesn't actually do anything
Re: SLR Camera Simulator
#10One thing that would be invaluable simulating is a variable aperture lens rather than this constant f/2.8 simulation. My girlfriend just got her first DSLR and was struggling with changing the aperture. While she understood the concepts, she wasn't familiar with working with a DSLR alone and since I wasn't physically present, it took me a while to realise over the phone she'd been changing the aperture by changing th…
You can change the aperture in this simulation. Perhaps it was just grayed out since you were in shutter-priority mode?
No see you're as confused as she was :) Most zoom lenses are variable aperture, e.g. at 18mm they will open up to f/3.5 but at 55mm they will only open up to f/5.6. The simulation doesn't address this, and it can be surprising for a beginner to see the aperture changing as they zoom - they may become fixated on zooming as a way to control aperture without realising they are observing a side-effect.