Cameras & Lenses

Which camera and lens is right for you? Read our guides to the best cameras and lenses to use for different types of photography, and feel confident in your choices.

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  1. A Comprehensive Guide to Wedding Photojournalism

    A Comprehensive Guide to Wedding Photojournalism

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this article, we're going to look at an extremely popular style of wedding photography, wedding photojournalism. There are many ways to photograph a...

  2. Hints & Tips for Successful Sports Photography

    Hints & Tips for Successful Sports Photography

    Tutorial Beginner

    Sports photography is fun and accessible. You don't have to be a pro to want great shots from your child's game or your favorite local team. Sports...

  3. Choosing a Digital Camera for Your Child: The Complete Guide

    Choosing a Digital Camera for Your Child: The Complete Guide

    Tutorial Beginner

    We lovers of photography who also have children usually don't have a problem pointing a camera at our kids time and time again. Many of us have entire hard...

  4. 10 Crazy Must-See Camera Tripods and Mounts

    10 Crazy Must-See Camera Tripods and Mounts

    Tutorial Beginner

    The world of camera-related inventions is a crazy place. One of the areas where wacky photographer inventions actually become quite practical is tripods and...

  5. Are Cameras With Built-in HDR the Future of Photography?

    Are Cameras With Built-in HDR the Future of Photography?

    Tutorial Beginner

    High Dynamic Range photography is one of two things: something that will be as commonplace as a built-in flash in ten years, or a silly fad that will soon...

  6. Film Is Alive and Well: Tips, Cameras, and Beginners Advice

    Film Is Alive and Well: Tips, Cameras, and Beginners Advice

    Tutorial Beginner

    When I first got into photography almost 20 years ago, film was the de facto standard and, obviously, the only standard. For over a hundred years film was...

  7. Step by Step: Buying & Shooting With an Antique Camera

    Step by Step: Buying & Shooting With an Antique Camera

    Tutorial Advanced

    When most people are given an antique, it's thrown onto a shelf as a nice dust-collecting decoration. Not me. I took my vintage 1924 Brownie camera...

  8. The Magic of Wide Apertures: Technique, Lenses & Settings

    The Magic of Wide Apertures: Technique, Lenses & Settings

    Tutorial Beginner

    You've probably seen plenty photos taken with wide apertures (we've written about this technique before on Phototuts+). They are easy to recognise because of...

  9. The Art of the Detail Shot: Capturing Beautiful Detail Photographs

    The Art of the Detail Shot: Capturing Beautiful Detail Photographs

    Tutorial Beginner

    One of the things that makes photography a successful art form is that it can show a viewer things in a different way. As photographers, we notice small...

  10. The Art of Using Backgrounds to Create Moody Photos

    The Art of Using Backgrounds to Create Moody Photos

    Tutorial Beginner

    Sometimes when you're taking a photo, you can be concentrating so much on your subject that you forget about the background. I'm sure you've seen the...

  11. The Ins and Outs of Street Photography: 10 Simple Steps

    The Ins and Outs of Street Photography: 10 Simple Steps

    Tutorial Beginner

    Street photography emerged in the late 20th Century as a means for capturing everyday life, for documenting social activity, and to "hold a mirror up to...

  12. Beauty Of Nature: 100 Brilliant Examples Of Bird Photography

    Beauty Of Nature: 100 Brilliant Examples Of Bird Photography

    Tutorial Beginner

    Bird photography is one of the most challenging types of nature photography, but remains an incredibly popular hobby for many people. The subject is usually...