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128 Questions

What is the difference between luminance and illuminance?

Do rounded edges on aperture blades improve image sharpness, and how?

How are the red focus point indicators displayed on a DSLR's focusing screen?

What is the difference between perspective distortion and barrel or pincushion distortion?

How do lens lineups vary across Mirrorless camera systems?

Why are blown highlights particularly bad in digital photography?

What are the differences between different types of cloth backdrops?

How does an apodization filter improve bokeh?

What should I look for when shopping for my first mirrorless camera?

Does image stabilization make things worse if it doesn't have time to “settle”?

How do zoom, magnification, and focal length relate?

How can I get good pictures of a fast-moving child without high FPS?

Removing rust from a lens's mount?

How does demosaicing work in Fujifilm's new sensor for the X Pro-1?

How do quirks of the human vision system affect photography?

If I assign a profile to my monitor in Gnome Color Manager, should I also enable that profile in Gimp?

How do I use the manual exposure setting in the new Google Camera app?

Does Gimp have a Match Color function similar to that in Adobe Photoshop?

How do I compare a continuous light panel's brightness vs. flash through a softbox?

What was the “New York School” of photography?

Is there a simple flash bracket which holds a flash securely?

What does “R” mean in Fujifilm's XF Fujinon lens names?

How can an electronic shutter reduce dynamic range?

How can I take portraits which seem to capture the essence of a subject I've just met?

Is it possible for a lens to produce too much contrast?

What's the small white plastic dome on old Pentax lenses?

What characteristics make a digital sensor good?

Who were the Bauhaus photographers and what was their impact on commercial and artistic photography today?

How does a short flange back distance improve image quality?

This semicircular white plastic clip came with a lightstand: what is it?