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Remember the cloth that came with your glasses? The grey micro-fibre one, the one you used 4-5 times then somehow lost. It worked so well. Remember that cloth? Sure you do. How about the cloth that came with your camera? That one was incredible – never a smudge. Gone now. Great while you had it though.

Did you get one with your mobile phone?

Me too (no, I don’t know where mine is either).

Where did they all go?

The concept is wonderfully simple; find yourself a perfect cloth material for safely and effectively cleaning optical glass, sew it into a pouch to keep it in good condition and attach a clip for you to fix it to something so you can always find it when you need it. At the top of the storage pouch is a plastic clip, allowing you to attach your Spudz cloth onto your chosen optical product, making it always easily accessible. How brilliant is that?

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Spudz are available in a range of colour designs and sizes. What makes Spudz so convenient is the design. Unlike other lens cloths, the Spudz lens cloth stays attached to the inside of the storage pouch. The snap hook also provides an easy way to clip it to a keychain or camera bag and keep it available at all times.

Many photographers have already found Spudz to be an essential part of every photo shoot. Spudz will clean finger prints, moisture and dust particles from lenses gently because of the special Micro-Fibre cloth inside.
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The latest addition to the Spudz range is a cleaning cloth that is also 18% grey so cleaning your lens and calibrating your camera have never been easier.

Ideal for a number of uses, and finally available in the UK, Spudz are selling as fast as the brilliant concept behind them suggests they should. Find yours at fine online camera retailers.

Here’s the next digital camera tip as a follow-up on our first ‘picture perfect’ post -

Tip #2 – Automatic Exposure Bracketing (AEB):

If you are trying to get the perfect exposure in a photograph, most digital photographers will take their time, change the settings a few times and review after. But with a changing environment, the AEB is a very useful setting – this automatically takes 3 photos in 3 different exposures so you can choose a keeper.

Inspired by the Digital Photography School’s 21 Settings, Techniques and Rules All New Camera Owners Should Know”, I thought it’d be nice to share some of their digital camera functionality tips, along with some of my own, on a weekly or fortnightly basis.

Tip #1 – Aperture/Shutter:

Simply put, adjusting the aperture will adjust the focal sharpness of your photo. So, a narrow arperture with a slow shutter speed will increase the sharpness while a wide aperture and fast shutter speed will decrease sharpness – a beautiful technique for singling out a specific object in your photo.

The shutter speed itself can have a dramatic impact the way a moving object is captured – by slowing down the shutter speed; the motion will be more fully captured.