Like most Otaku, I love to collect things.  Anime figures, manga, anime DVDs, art books, Dollfie Dream clothes, musical instruments….   You get the idea.  Otaku also love showing off their collections to others and things like twitter, flickr, and facebook make that very easy to do.   This desire to photograph my collections led me into a new hobby, photography.  I now own 2 DSLR cameras, light stands and umbrellas, 2 Nikon speed lights, and reflectors.  I guess I’m a photography Otaku now as well.

DSLR’s are fantastic, not just for the amazing quality of image they can make but for the versatility they give you.  Being able to change lenses for different situations and purposes lets you have the control to try to make the best possible picture possible.  There is one down side though, changing the lens means that at some time you will get dust in the body of the camera and it’s going to eventually find it’s way to your camera’s sensor.  The sensor in a DSLR is what takes the place of film.  It records the light of the real world and turns it into pixels.  If dust gets on your sensor it will block the view it has of the world.

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