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Digital cameras demysitied - All you ever wanted to know about Digital cameras
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Dr Ashish Mahobia
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This is a compilation of few mails i received recently and I'm thankful to the original authors for the efforts.Very informative Dear All, "Point and shoot" digital cameras have become an important part of lives of anyone and everyone who wants to take pictures and have made taking pictures as easy as point and shoot. For most people they are good enough and at most times they are good enough. Besides others, one down side has been that people don't need to know some very basic stuff about photography. One of them is about the way we can control "depth of field" in a photograph. We need to have a short/small depth of field while taking pictures like portraits, as we are focusing on one subject and we want everything else to be blurred so that the viewers attention only goes on the object of interest. We need a long or deep depth of field while taking pictures like landscapes as we want all objects, near and far, to be in focus. Depth of field/focus is contro...
A piece of my heart (touching story)
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One day a young man, standing in the middle of the town, proclaimed that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and admired his heart. There was not a flaw in it. Yes, they agreed that it truly the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. Suddenly an old man appeared and said, "Why, your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine!" All of them looked at his heart. It was beating strongly, but it was full of scars. It had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't quite fit right and there were several jagged edges. In some places there were whole pieces missing. The young man laughed. "Compare your heart with mine. Mine is perfect, yours is a mess of scars and tears." "Yes," agreed the old man. "But I'd never trade it with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love. I tear out a piece and give it to them. Often they have given me a piece of ...