"Use Manual mode" is common advice from professional and advanced photographers on this website and elsewhere. Recently, a photographer asked me why manual exposure was almost universally suggested.

A key defining principle of the Canon EOS DSLR camera system was to make it simple and instinctive. Full-time manual focus for lenses with USM focus motors fits that remit. It is useful for subjects ...

Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac For most photos, the iPhone camera proves perfectly adequate. You just hold up your phone, point it, and shoot. The exposure and focus are almost always correct, or ...

Manual camera apps for iPhone offer better control over settings like exposure, focus, ISO and shutter speed. If you’ve ever shot photos in an environment where the light wasn’t ideal or had a rough ...

Here to help with photography and business education, and an appearance from KillJoy every now and again. I’m a 20+ year pro-photographer, Canon Explorer of Light and Profoto Legend of Light with dual ...

All modern interchangeable lens cameras and most compact cameras and camera phones allow you to set a manual white balance. It’s important to do this when shooting in tricky lighting conditions, as it ...

The focus of Google’s Pixel phones has always been on the camera, and it seems there’s a lot of new stuff coming with the Pixel 8 series, as a new leaked ad reveals manual camera controls, new ...