Brighton Computer Club

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Brighton Computer Club
Digital Camera SIG
Revised Program for the Digital Camera SIG
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Brighton Computer Club
Digital Camera SIG
Program Development Group David
Lawler Ron Visockis Peter McCann Bruce
Tollefson
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Brighton Computer Club
Digital Camera SIG
Meeting Format

• 1¾ hours long
• Three sections of roughly 25 minutes each
• A break of 10 minutes
• Short QA session at the end

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Digital Camera SIG
Content

• First section Equipment capabilities
• Various aspects of camera operation and
• taking photographs
• Second section Software focussed
• Demonstrations of photograph handling,
• archiving, manipulation of images, etc
• Third section -- constructive group discussion
• of 2-3 photographs submitted by members
• re photo techniques discussed at the previous
  meeting.
• Chance to practice techniques demonstrated

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Brighton Computer Club
Digital Camera SIG
Program ideas
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Digital Camera SIG
Program ideas (contd)
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Digital Camera SIG
Other ideas

• Equipment
• Tripods and other methods of stabilization
• Add-on lenses for PS cameras
• Scanners
• Printers
• Computer requirements for digital photography
• Point and Shoot vs DSLR

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Digital Camera SIG
Other ideas

• Shooting
• Night photography
• Flash photography
• Low light photography
• Studio photography
• Nature photography
• Landscape photography
• Macro photography
• Panorama techniques
• Panning techniques

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Digital Camera SIG
Other ideas

• Shooting
• Black and white photography
• Portrait photography
• Shake reduction technology
• File formats RAW, JPG, BMP, TIFF, etc.

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Digital Camera SIG
Other ideas

• More advanced material
• Pixels (camera), pixels (monitor) and dpi
  (printer)
• Backing up photos and libraries
• Pixels, noise and resolution
• Colour correction for monitors and printers
• Good books, web sites
• High dynamic range techniques (when we get
  really advanced)

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