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Anonymous10/26/25, 23:35No.4477834Know the camera like a mechanic knows a car
Three sciences about light that'll help you understand: The science of photons, electromagnetic radiation, and bosons
Two technical concepts that'll help you understand how your camera works: How computers work, how chemistry works, and how the mechanics work in a camera. (Anon here like what the fuck computers? Yes anon your digital camera is a damn computer like a smartphone is a damn computer. Hell even in some cases a calculator can be a computer. And the next what the fuck statement is about film photography which is indeed chemistry.)
Last thing is knowing how all the programming and placement of the camera functionality is in your camera. Such as knowing what the hell C4k is in a Panasonic GH5 for example.
You do all this you would know your camera like a mechanic knows a car. Congratulations you are a step ahead in being a photographer or cinematographer.
The most important part about all of this is the hardest part which is does it make sense to you like any other art form?
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Anon10/26/25, 23:52No.4477836
Are mechanics really the best race car drivers?
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Anon10/27/25, 00:39No.4477849
You don't need to know that much, you need to know how to operate it and you need to RTFM so that you don't sell it looking for some functionality that was there all the time. And you need to learn how to expose properly if you're going to shoot in manual so that you don't use stupid settings like a fujislug and then complain the photos suck. Certain knowledge of the internals helps but most doesn't at all. Know the native (analog) ISOs and things like that if they matter for the particular camera, know what defaults you need to change in the custom settings, then set and forget.
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Anon10/27/25, 17:10No.4478098
Bait thread. Fake zach.
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Anon10/27/25, 17:51No.4478106
Some fag found this guys imgur and is using it to bait and troll.
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Anon11/03/25, 05:29No.4480093
Bottom line is, light is em radiation and an example is your phone getting a signal. How we see is the force of this em radiation. How a photo is made is this force gets recorded from its impact like a stamp. Why this is possible is that electrons exist in the universe. Why electrons, they contain energy. Why energy can do this like light, E=MC squared.
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Anon11/03/25, 08:11No.4480107
Yeah but a cameras got nothing on a tray of oil paints. I can take the best photographs I’ve ever shot and no one will buy them. I can take the worst photos I’ve ever shot, trace them and paint them, and people will buy them and hang them on their walls. In learning how a camera works, you’re really just learning how a tool used in the production of a painting works. A photographer who shoots images but never takes those images to the painting stage is just, oh my gods a photographer is just a failed painter. Oh shit I just destroyed myself.
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Anon11/04/25, 00:43No.4480356
more like learn full manual mode and dont go back
literally all you need
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Anon11/04/25, 09:47No.4480470
>The science of photons, electromagnetic radiationtruuu, I often enjoy viewing photos of girls experimenting with slits. As a photographer, it helps build my visual library
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Anon11/04/25, 13:40No.4480485
still waiting for anyone to post a photo of a boson, hopefuly taken in an artistic manner
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Anon11/04/25, 15:07No.4480498
Fake zach melty. Kek
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Anon11/04/25, 17:24No.4480516
Yeah, you shouldn't operate your digital camera without a phd in quantum mechanics
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Anon11/05/25, 01:59No.4480588
>Know the camera like a mechanic knows a car
Yeah if you want to scam single mothers you can either be a car mechanic or a jostens photographer so I guess you're right.
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Anon11/21/25, 19:54No.4484240
New info: light summed up is a quantum function like quarks and leptons.