Prevent Condensing Lens

Jakarta - When the lens is moved from a cold to a hot area or contrary, there is the possibility of the lens will have condensation or dewy.

A common example is when we get out of the car air-conditioned chill out hot car. Or conversely, when we carry out our camera and lens from a warm place like home to outdoor cooler and moist.

Meetings between the camera and lens are warm to a cool place will keep the moisture stick and condense into dew on the surface and inside the camera lens.

If allowed to go or repeated, this condensation can cause mildew, rust and even shorting.

How to avoid it is to enter the camera and lens into an airtight plastic / ziplock, and then let the camera and lens to adjust slowly to the new temperature.

It should be about 10-20 minutes to adjust depending on the length of the lens. Simple and short lenses like the 50mm prime lens or a zoom 18-55mm takes less time to adjust to the new temperature.

If you already condensing / condensing, do not remove the lens from the camera and insert the camera and lens in plastic and try to remove the air from the plastic. Incorporating water absorbent such as silica or rice can also help.

Do not worry and wait until the camera adjusts to the ambient air. In some cases, need to wait 1-2 days to recover the camera and lens to normal.

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5 Tips for Photographing Ray of Light

Jakarta - One photograph subjects that usually attract attention is the ray of light. The reflection of sunlight shining on the earth dreamy and magical memorable.

Actually not difficult to photograph rays of light, just that we need to observe the light well, is in position and the right camera settings. Some tips to get ray of light ( ROL ) the following may be tried:

1. The morning in the highlands
In the morning shortly after sunrise, and in the highlands, usually a lot of fog are quite low, as the sun shines through the fog, that's when we can see quite clearly biased light .

2. Photographing behind trees / leaves
Trees and foliage can be split bias sun light so that the lines look more apparent.

3. Find a dark background
Background such as climbing walls, a dark room, or leafy trees will make a ray of light more clearly because of differences in the light dark contrast.

4. Use smoke to refract light
If there is no mist, you can use the smoke to get a ray of light effect. Cigarette smoke and incense ( incense ) are two popular enameled smoke. Make smoke in the path of light rays.

5. Setting the camera exposure
The sunlight is too bright camera light can outwit calculation (metering). Cameras assume the light is too bright, so choose a setting to limit light, the results can be rather dark picture.

Thus, we often need to set the ISO, shutter speed and ISO manually to get the desired dark light. For the opening, my advice using a relatively small openings such as f/8-f/16 to limit light and improve contrast.

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