enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Tripod (photography) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod_(photography)

   Other head types include the gimbal, fluid, gear, alt-azimuth, and equatorial heads. Fluid heads and gear heads move very smoothly, avoiding the jerkiness caused by the stick-slip effect found in other types of tripod heads. Gimbal heads are single-axis heads used in order to allow a balanced movement for camera and lenses. This proves useful ...

3. Tripod head - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod_head

   Gimbal heads are designed mainly for long, heavy telephoto lenses, and are often used for wildlife or sports photography. Their primary feature is the ability to balance the camera and lens within the tripod head and use tension controls to simulate a "weightlessness".

4. Portrait photography - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_photography

   Lenses used in portrait photography are classically fast, medium telephoto lenses, though any lens may be used, depending on artistic purposes. See Canon EF Portrait Lenses for Canon lenses in this style; other manufacturers feature similar ranges. The first dedicated portrait lens was the Petzval lens developed in 1840 by Joseph Petzval.

5. Canon EF portrait lenses - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_Portrait_Lenses

   Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM, a classic portrait lens. Canon makes several lenses for the EF lens mount and EF-S lens mount that are well-suited for portrait photography.These lenses may also be used for other purposes, often being suited for indoor sports photography as well, due to suitable focal length and wide aperture, though autofocus speed is an issue in sports photography that is less ...

6. Panoramic tripod head - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramic_tripod_head

   A panoramic tripod head is a piece of photographic equipment, mounted to a tripod, which allows photographers to shoot a sequence of images around the entrance pupil of a lens that can be used to produce a panorama.

7. Gimbal - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal

   Illustration of a simple three-axis gimbal set; the center ring can be vertically fixed. A gimbal is a pivoted support that permits rotation of an object about an axis. A set of three gimbals, one mounted on the other with orthogonal pivot axes, may be used to allow an object mounted on the innermost gimbal to remain independent of the rotation of its support (e.g. vertical in the first ...