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Shoot with a DSLR or mirrorless camera

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Shoot with a DSLR or mirrorless camera

- When you're shooting with a DSLR or a mirrorless camera, you have a lot more options than you do when you're shooting with your smart phone. For example, these cameras all shoot RAW, of course. So with a RAW file you have many more post-processing options than you do with a JPEG file that comes out of your phone. You also have the ability to shoot with whatever type of light you like. You can shoot with LED lights, as you can with your smart phone, but you can also shoot with strobes, or even studio lights when you're shooting with a DSLR or a mirrorless camera. Finally, you have the ability to change lenses, so this camera right now has a simple kit lens on it, which is a zoom that goes from 28-84mm and that's pretty good. Some of these kit lenses even have macro modes that allow you to get pretty close, but you then also have the option to put on a dedicated macro lens, or even a zoom or telephoto lens that will allow you to get quite far away from your subject, which as a nice…

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