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Hi, I’m Scott Vallance from Vallance Image Productions. I’m here today on behalf of
Expert Village.com. If you would like to see some of my work please visit my website at
vipphotographic.com. On this video clip we are going to be talking about the manual controls
on a 35mm camera. These controls are actually the same on most cameras but I am going to
demonstrate them on a 35mm camera for you. Basically there are two: shudder speed and
Fstops are apertures. We will talk about shutters speed first. On most cameras if you do not
have your camera on automatic, there is a dial somewhere on the camera probably up at
the top, and it will list different numbers. All these numbers are fractions with for instance
1000 up here means 1000th of a second, that is very fast. If you go down to the very bottom
it would be like 1 second, 2 second, 3 seconds, 4 seconds. The shutter speed actually controls
how long the light hits the film or the sensor in your camera. The second control is the
aperture or Fstops. A lens actually has a diaphragm in the middle of it that controls
how much light actually comes through the lens and what this does is it controls how
much light actually hits the film or the sensor which is different from the shutter speed
which controls how long it hits the aperture of this sensor. The aperture actually controls
how much light. There are numbers on your lens and these are all F numbers as in F5.6,
F8, F11. The higher the number the less light comes through. Those are the two basic controls
on almost every camera out there. If you have an automatic camera most of this is done for
you. Thank you.