Polaroid Cameras I Manuel d'utilisateur

Cameras I Basic operation and features Why Digital? With digital photography you can do things that you can not do with film: • Snap

9 Good, Better, Best or Normal, Fine, Superfine At the highest quality, Best or Superfine, the compression removes only the artifacts that the JPEG

10are spread over a larger area so apparent distortions are lessened. Professional quality cameras have large lenses with large objectives. Higher zo

11 new disk drive. Newer operating systems, such as Windows XP may do this automatically, older operating systems, particularly Windows 98 and ME, w

12Microsoft Picture-It, (free with XP?): Pretty limited, but good for simple tasks. Make sure that the software (and the drivers for the camera), ar

13 The final result Photo restoration: The following severely damaged file was restored using Photoshop Elements:

14 File types Different file types can be determined by the suffix on the file name, for example, a JPEG file might be called “filename.jpeg” or “fi

15 tend to be smaller and are definitely more expensive, and standard size batteries that you can buy in any electronics, grocery or drug store. Pr

16Some other common features on many cameras There are a number of other common features on most digital cameras. Most cameras have the following mo

17 Both of these ads appeared in the Sunday paper. There are three cameras in them that you should not buy. Can you spot them? Hint: Digital

18Printing at the digital kiosk You don’t need a computer to enjoy the benefits of digital photography. With the introduction of digital kiosks in m

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19 Addendum Copyright law If you take a picture with your camera, you own it. You can copyright it, print it, sell it and freely modify it. If you u

20Buying a digital camera: Checklist: 1. Megapixels: □ < 2 Megapixels – eBay low quality only □ 2 Megapixels □ 3 Megapixels Very High Quality □

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22Addendum 2: Digital cameras versus the Space Shuttle I make the comment all the time, “Your digital camera has more computing power than the space

2shutter button and lens are virtually the only parts of the camera that remain in digital cameras. The film has been replaced with a light sensitiv

3 The block diagram shows a fast microprocessor, memory, a color display and buttons for a user interface; with a power supply for rechargeable batte

4What the heck is a megapixel? Mega is a prefix that means million. A pixel refers to the element on the CCD that captures light. Thus a 4 megapixel

5 Remember: while you can always decrease resolution using editing software, you can never increase it. A rough rule of thumb is that the memory req

6Can you see the difference? You can probably tell that the 1 megapixel camera is not as good for 8x10s. It is still adequate for email or eBay work

7 Many cameras offer a digital zoom in addition to the optical zoom. That’s ok. If you never use the digital portion, which is activated automaticall

8Remember the rule of thumb for storage? One half the megapixel rating per picture. So a 4 megapixel camera will require 2 megabytes of storage per p