Digital

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Digital Cameras

• District Choices
• SLR vs. Fixed Lens
• Photo editing with Gimp

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Nikon Digital SLR D50 D40
Canon PowerShot A460
Cameras of Choice for the District
Kodak EasyShare C330
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SLR means "Single Lens Reflex"
This means that when you look through the
viewfinder of the camera, you are looking through
the same lens through which light will pass to
the sensor.With an SLR, if the lens cap is on
everything is dark. If your hand is covering half
of the lens you see it. The biggest advantage of
SLRs besides seeing exactly the same image that
will expose the sensor is that SLRs have
interchangeable lenses. You can remove lenses and
replace them with wide-angle lenses for landscape
shots and telephoto for sports or wildlife. They
are great for action shots.
Click on the camera for a great review of both
kinds of cameras
Fixed Lens Point and Click"
With a fixed lens, there's a separate lens you're
looking through, so you might actually have then
lens cap on, or a finger over the lens and not
realize it until you see the picture. These
cameras are great for stills but not as good for
action shots.
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The cameras our district has chosen use SD
(Secure Digital) Memory Cards for storage. These
are the same cards that go into many Palm
products or Treo phones. They come in various
sizes and prices.
Better Cameras mean Larger Files You want to take
high resolution pictures but for web pages,
e-mails, desktop publishing, and multimedia
presentations you will need to resize your photos.
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Resizing Photos with PowerPoint
Insert a large sized photo from the Insert Menu
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Change the compression to 96 dpi
Change the size and save to the computer.
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Insert the smaller photo from the Insert Menu
The original was 1,378 KB Recompressing reduced
the photo to 1,097 KB Resizing and saving to the
computer lowered the size to 163 KB
You will use far less memory in your project.
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Here are a few free online photo editors
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Shutterfly Studio lets you do some basic fixes
such as color, brightness, cropping, straightening
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You can do a few effects like graphic poster
in a variety of colors
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Using the Sepia Tone effect you can colorize
your photos with many different colors
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Picassa2 from Google also offers some special
effects
that will add variety to your work
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You can make picture piles, contact sheets,
picture grids and multiple exposures
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Snipshot is a very basic photo editor but it is
online and you do not need to download anything
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You may bring in your pictures directly from
your computer and make some basic edits
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Cropping the photo is a common
action relating to photographs
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Snipshot also lets you resize your photos
which is important for many creative projects
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Gimp is an open source download that is about as
powerful as Photoshop Elements but its
FREE!! Gimp is part of our districts computer
image.
Gimp Download Page
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Here is just a screenshot of some of the many
powerful (and free!) tools you will find in Gimp
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Have a great time with your camera!