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Equipment Maintenance

Learn to maintain cameras, lenses, cards, batteries and storage safely.

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What you will learn

1. Explain the purpose of equipment maintenance

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2. Apply a practical method to maintain cameras, lenses, cards, batteries and storage safely

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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk

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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement

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Step-by-step practice

Step 1. Identify why equipment maintenance matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to maintain cameras, lenses, cards, batteries and storage safely.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Create a monthly equipment and backup maintenance checklist.
Safe and responsible practice: Use current official guidance for legal, privacy, drone and safety decisions.

Practical activity

Complete and record this task

Create a monthly equipment and backup maintenance checklist.

Good-practice checklist

The likely cause was identified
The correction was tested and recorded
Complete the practical activity for equipment maintenance
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant

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