Photography
After my last attempt to take up photography, including getting a second hand Canon SLR (Single Lens Reflex) which has since stopped working, I never quite shook off the idea. I've always been fascinated by the creative process involved in composing and capturing images. They range from taking portrait to landscape pictures under various conditions, either natural or otherwise. The latter category is why a SLR is useful, as you can adjust the shutter speed or aperture size to create different effects, from freezing fast actions to slowing them into a blur. I recently got myself a Sony A57, which uses a translucent mirror technology, i.e., the mirror doesn't reflex unlike a normal SLR. Rather, the translucent mirrors allows the image both to be reflected onto the sensor for capturing and the viewfinder for composing simultaneously. For a normal SLR, the mirror needs to swing out of the way after composing for the sensor to take the image. What this means that the ca