I just saw this posted on Facebook by Midwest Photo Exchange: SLR Camera Simulator
It is a "SLR camera simulator shows you visually how ISO speed, aperture, shutter speed, and distance affect the outcome of your digital photos"
This is a great tool to teach beginners about the relationship between the various settings and will probably be useful for most everybody. You can adjust the settings and "snap" the photo to see the results of your choices.
Surely you could just use your camera for this kind of thing?
Well, that would require actually moving from in front of a computer screen... not gonna happen ;-)
ETA: I *do* see value in something like this. Seeing both the image result *and* the explanation of *why* it looks like it does may be very helpful to beginners looking to understand camera functions.
Good stuff, I am always wondering when they will come up with some kind of photography videogame based on some 3d engine. The tecnology is there already. Just, what could the measurable objective for the player be? :)
I guess just a sniper/paparazzi 'you got your shot in focus' kind of thing could work..
The app is pretty cool and by far the best I have seen for beginners.
It would be awesome if there was manual focus and perhaps a scene diagram from above, so to experiment with DOF and hyperfocal distance
OK, I've played with it some, and in fact I'm really pretty impressed with the results. The pinwheel blur responds realistically to shutter speed changes. Cool. The resulting exposure seems believable when I intentionally under or over expose. Neat. The program notifies me when I use a shutter speed that is too slow for the movement of the girl in the frame.
The "feedback" is OK, but sometimes cryptic. When I crank the ISO but otherwise get it right, it comments that the shot "is a little grainy" but doesn't tell me why. It would be nice if there was a button to click to receive more detailed feedback, including the problem, the cause, and potential solutions.
Really, though, it's pretty cool. Now if it could only do some landscapes, LOL.
ETA: LOL, it's a Canon. Now where did they find that 18-55mm f/2.8 lens??
Good stuff, I am always wondering when they will come up with some kind of photography videogame based on some 3d engine. The tecnology is there already. Just, what could the measurable objective for the player be? :)
I guess just a sniper/paparazzi 'you got your shot in focus' kind of thing could work..
The app is pretty cool and by far the best I have seen for beginners.
It would be awesome if there was manual focus and perhaps a scene diagram from above, so to experiment with DOF and hyperfocal distance
