DSLR Cameras Explained

What are DSLR Cameras?

 DSLR  stands for digital single-lens reflex camera, and if you carry on reading you'll find out exactly why they are better than your standard general cameras you would come across.

 What are Megapixels in DSLRs?

Just like the standard digital cameras you can find, DSLRs have sensors that take the image, before the image then gets put onto the memory card.
DSLR sensors are in the flesh bigger than the sensors in general digital cameras, which is one of the  reasons why DSLR cameras tend to give better image quality. The average DSLR camera sensor also have more megapixels than the average  digital camera, which helps if for example are a printing firm and want very large prints.

Image Quality on DSLR Cameras

If you fasten a high quality lens to a DSLR, you can seriously maximise the quality of image of a DSLR to easily surpass what you can achieve with a standard camera – things like the detail, colour and sharpness too will be stronger.

On some  of the DSLR cameras you might come across, the quality from the usually supplied kit lens is nothing to get excited over in terms of quality shots.  You can tend to find, DSLR cameras are sold body only.

 

DSLR size and weight

DSLR cameras, when you also include the kit lense, body and standard equipment that come with it, are physically much bigger and bulkier than pretty much all of the standard digital cameras you will come across, but they're not necessarily that heavy in their own right.

Nevertheless, as you probably would  be carrying more than  just the single lens around with you,  you might want to use a bigger lens than the one already supplied, your inventory can get quite heavy. DSLR cameras usually have a good handgrip and considering mine which is a Canon and has a superb grip on it, so holding onto them whilst getting a shot shouldn’t be too hard.

Shutter delays on DSLR cameras

Shutter delays are an issue on DSLR cameras too you might find, but not as much. DSLR cameras shutter delay’s  are usually pretty quick (usually under 0.5 seconds). Also the Start up time and shot-to-shot time are also faster with a DSLR.

DSLRs' viewfinder and LCD screen

DSLR cameras have viewfinders which are precise and lucid. Unlike the older generation of DSLR cameras, most of the new models allow you to compose your pictures on the LCD screen too. Some DSLR cameras you may also come across might have a separate LCD screen on them for displaying menu's,shooting information, and other general standard things such as Battery life.

How did English Football get so popular?

“In 1992, Sky Sports bought Premier League TV rights for just over £302m, 21 years later at the start of the 2013/14 season, Sky have once again recently renewed it’s Premier League football’s TV rights package for £3billion. 

Which is a significant increase since it’s inception. Sky television in it’s inception year didn’t even have a sports channel, and 20 years on we’ve seen 4 channels added including 4 HD sports channels and a pay per view football channel called Prem Plus which was around from 2001 till 2007 which screened exclusive Premier League football matches to subscription holders of that channel, which was publically criticised by sections football fans. 

Another reason that English football has benefited so much from Sky’s television rights purchase is because football league matches until 1992 were available on free to air television such as the BBC, “which was funded by the tax payers money which more technically is referred to TV licensing fees”, so really didn’t have the budget to go out and air as many football matches as Sky do now. therefore when the hundreds of millions that were put into the Premier League clubs budget helped pay the bigger wages and transfer fees which later in this entry will thoroughly look into in a in depth manner to find out what benefits this really provided and what consequence the rest of English football are paying for the big teams increase.

Sky TV has changed the social word of football fans a lot, pre 1992 before Sky football came in, football fans would have mostly scratched their head at the possibility of going to a pub to watch a football match, the big TV screens were virtually unheard off and back when people were slightly tentative about the prospect of splashing out a lot of money at the time on a satellite dish. 

One of the problems many football fans and media alike have touched upon is the fact how Sky is socially destroying the game for the supporters due to how successful they’ve actually become, Sky have become ‘out of touch’ with the average football fan.

 

As touched upon in the Guardian article ‘The game that ate itself’ tells us how a story of a die-hard Manchester City supporter had been going to every fixture home and away for over 5 years until recently being priced out due to the rise in ticket prices. A ticket to see his team play Birmingham had risen in 1 year from £17 to £35, what was the difference? Birmingham had been promoted to the top division of English football. Due to the demand and interest Sky has brought to English football, it’s only natural for clubs to do the same and put prices up even more and take advantage of the demand. The over achievement of Sky since 1992’s rights purchase of English football has led to pricing out the average fan out of games.

The true difference between Coke and Pepsi

Now you’re probably sitting there thinking “What’s the difference?” Possibly one drink `seems sweeter, but you couldn’t differentiate them in a test of taste. Yet you’d certainly know without a doubt which one you’d buy at a store.

The brutal brand loyalties of Coke and Pepsi are a spectacle that epitomise American marketing at it’s best.

Purely because of it being older, Coca Cola was always the brand that was ahead of Pepsi purely IMO, due to time.

Pepsi enlarged marketing shares in the middle of the century with a sequence of advertising campaigns. In 1975 the first ‘Pepsi Challenge’ claimed that people (obviously just celebrities though..) preferred Pepsi in a test that blindfolded the people that were taking the test. Pepsi also acclaimed that it was also  the  drink of the new generation, with massive celebrities like Michael Jackson, this was a massive marketing ploy by Pepsi which as you’ll found out find how it changed the rivalry in the coming years.

Why is Car Insurance so expensive?

Once upon a time, a famous man named Oscar Wilde once spouted the most famous insurance quotes of all time: “Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing”, and when it comes to experience behind the wheel, young drivers certainly pay for it”.

Most likely the highest costs of car insurance premiums of any age group, young drivers might feel a little scapegoated when it comes to the cost of cover. In actual truth, very recent research has told me that young drivers think the insurance industries are “thieves and day light robbers”

But if you think about it, it’s no lie that young drivers’ car insurance are so overpriced. You will never get cheap car insurance if you’ve just recently passed your driving test and below the age of 23, and the hindsight of it is that you can’t get more experience until you actually get on the roads – forcing young men to cough up for heavily priced insurance.

Things could potentially revolutionize in the future as the government could take steps to bring young drivers’ insurance costs down but in the interim, here’s a short briefing on why Insurance is so expensive for young drivers.

Statistics

In 2011, close to 1/5^th  of people killed or seriously injured on the UK’s roads were aged between 17 and 23 years old, according to the DfT.

Some other information I researched that I got back was that the DfT (Department for Transport) in 2011 found that on average an 18 year old driver is potentially three times as likely to be involved in a crash as someone who is older than the age of 40.

A few years ago, research by the DsA (Driving Standards Agency) found that one in five new drivers  are involved in some sort of accident within their first six to 12 months of driving, which is a staggeringly high statistic but is also a very flawed way of looking at it.

In my opinion I tend to find statistics like this drag on and you can look at statistics in many ways  like how old drivers are more likely to cause incidents for others by driving way under the average speed limit on a 30 mile an hour road but this goes heavily unnoticed.

It’s obvious though, that insurers charge younger drivers more for cover because there’s a greater chance they’ll have to pay out for a claim, and have a general perception of young drivers to be “fast and furious” type drivers, but they could potentially find many ways to alter this to reduce the premium .

How I stay in Touch with my Creative Side

If you’re a blogger like myself, then  you could find this list i’m about to show you quite interesting. We all need to stay creative in our lives, so what better way to start than by reading this?

1. Make lists.
2. Write notes.
3. Get away from the computer, (yeah I went there!)
4. Be more optimistic.
5. Believe in yourself.
6. Join a gym and start training, i’ll be looking to post my training plans on this blog later on!
7. Start singing
8. Drink more coffee, especially for breakfast as a release of energy is essential if you lack sleep.
9. Surround yourself with more optimistic people (winners!)
10. Practice makes perfect!

So what the hell are you waiting for dude or dudette? Get started today!