CotswoldsRetreat
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Hi all
As you can probably tell from the subject title I am very much a beginner at photography.
I have recently moved from a Point-and-Shoot Canon camera and purchased a Panasonic DMC-FZ200 and 'Understanding Exposure' by Bryan Peterson and while I am making progress in improving my photography knowledge the learning curve is still steep!
In Byran's book - and others for that matter - I see the following example details listed:
The aperture and shutter I understand but I am not fully understanding the 35-70mm at 35mm or the 75-300 lens at 130mm
The DMC-FZ200 has a 25-600mm lens and I assume that when fully retract then the length is 25mm and when fully zoomed it will be 600mm - or is it?
When I am zooming out how do I find out how far I have zoomed? I am sure if the FZ200 can tell me so how do other photographers know?
On the FZ200 is the 25-600mm referring to the focal length?
Hope all that makes sense and if anyone can shed light on my bolded queries I would be very grateful.
As you can probably tell from the subject title I am very much a beginner at photography.
I have recently moved from a Point-and-Shoot Canon camera and purchased a Panasonic DMC-FZ200 and 'Understanding Exposure' by Bryan Peterson and while I am making progress in improving my photography knowledge the learning curve is still steep!
In Byran's book - and others for that matter - I see the following example details listed:
f/5.6 for 1/500 sec 35-70mm at 35mm
or
f/32 for 1/15 sec 75-300 lens at 130mm
The aperture and shutter I understand but I am not fully understanding the 35-70mm at 35mm or the 75-300 lens at 130mm
The DMC-FZ200 has a 25-600mm lens and I assume that when fully retract then the length is 25mm and when fully zoomed it will be 600mm - or is it?
When I am zooming out how do I find out how far I have zoomed? I am sure if the FZ200 can tell me so how do other photographers know?
On the FZ200 is the 25-600mm referring to the focal length?
Hope all that makes sense and if anyone can shed light on my bolded queries I would be very grateful.