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Why Are There So Many Camera Settings? I Am Confused - Help Me? Hi and welcome to Episode 100 of the Photography Explained podcast.

I’m your host Rick, and in each episode I will explain one photographic thing to you in plain English in less than 10 minutes (ish) without the irrelevant details. What I tell you is based on my lifetime of photographic experience. And not Google.

Yes episode 100. More on that later. But now I want to get straight into this week’s episode.

Here is the answery bit
Camera settings allow photographers to change the way in which the camera takes a photo. After all we are converting light into digital stuff so there needs to be some control over how this happens.

Whilst there seems to be an endless number of camera settings these can be split into three main groups of settings

• Camera settings that are set once in camera and you may never change them again
• Camera settings that you might change during a shoot/ taking photos
• Camera settings for each specific photo

And this is going to take more than one episode, so bear with me as I break this down into manageable chunks. But don’t worry, we will get there.

OK – that was the longest answer ever. And up to writing this I was beginning to regret tackling such a broad subject but I have found a way, it was the bit in the answer.

Listen for more, or check out the transcript and even the blog post - so many ways to find out more!

What’s next?
Episode 101 - Camera Settings 1 - Things That You Can Set And Forget

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