Taking pictures isn’t easy in Saudi Arabia. It’s not just the mutawwas patrolling the streets, detaining you for taking perfectly legal photos, or the culture, where taking a picture of a woman, even at a wedding, would lead to a lynching. We also have to deal with the ever present downsides of the Saudi consumer economy. Namely: Electronics are sold at an obscene markup.
Let me just start off by saying that photography is a game of trade-offs. Any button or dial that you change on your camera affects your image in both positive and negative ways. Good photography is like finding good compromise.
Computer Engineers talk about bits, multiplexers, clock speeds and routers. Financial Engineers deal with standard deviations, stochastics and statistical distributions. And photographers? Well they have their own set of jargon that’s specifically designed to freak out the uninitiated.
So you’re looking to buy a new camera. And you’re unsure of whether you want to make the jump into the world of SLRs. Well you’ve come to the right place. This article will outline some of the things you need to consider while making your decision. It’s also a list of realistic expectations from [...]
It’s the biggest scam of the camera world. One that has been propagated through extensive marketing and consumer ignorance. It is the megapixel myth!