Article: Beginner's Guide to Concert Photography

Tyler Groover at Examiner.com has an interesting article describing the tricks and secrets of good concert photography. The article covers everything from getting access to the venue, equipment tips, flash use, lenses and camera tips.

Here's some information for the budding concert photographer. The information here is directed toward the photographer/blogger on a budget shooting small to medium venues but using a DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera. By no means is this an exhaustive guide. Where possible, links to other great resources are provided.

Read the full article at examiner.com

What is a DSLR lens mount?

A lens mount is an interface — mechanical and often also electrical — between a photographic camera body and a lens. It is confined to cameras where the body allows interchangeable lenses, most usually the single lens reflex type or any movie camera of 16 mm or higher gauge. Lens mounts are also used to connect optical components in instrumentation that may not involve a camera, such as the modular components used in optical laboratory prototyping which join via C-mount or T-mount elements.

A lens mount may be a screw-threaded type, a bayonet-type, or a friction lock type. Modern still camera lens mounts are of the bayonet type, because the bayonet mechanism precisely aligns mechanical and electrical features between lens and body. Screw-threaded mounts are fragile and do not align the lens in a reliable rotational position, yet types such as the C-mount interface are still widely in use for other applications like video cameras and optical instrumentation.

Lens mounts of competing manufacturers (Nikon, Canon, Contax/Yashika, Pentax, etc.) are almost always incompatible. Many allege that this is due to the desire of manufacturers to "lock in" consumers to their brand.

Read more about lens mounts at Wikipedia