Tutorial Two: Digital Camera use and applications

Digital cameras
“A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature”
Pulses of Digital cameras are you are able to delete any unwanted photos, you can print them yourself on your computer, you can email pictures easier without having to scan them.
Pulses of traditional film based cameras are I think most of the time it’s a better quality photo, you have the hard copy printed then instead of them all on computer files, I think you take thought out photos compared to taking lots of photos of the same thing using a digital camera because you know you can delete them later.
Digital camera photos are usually transferred from the memory card to a computer where they are stored in files. They can then be transferred by email (uploading/downloading), floppy disks, USB sticks, CD’s and posted on blogs or communicating websites.
The ethical issues when using a digital camera are that people may be in the background of a shot and haven’t given consent. Its very easy for the person with the photos to send them around to a lot of people and they are harder to destroy on file that having the had copy or negatives. There are also copyrights that go with photos so duplicating and emailing a photo is not always legal.
OTs can use digital camera’s when doing housing modifications to get an accurate photo of the room, on websites advertising a programme or group running, in catalogues or pamphlets about equipment.
Flickr.com is a place on the internet you can store photos and videos. You can edit them, make a slide show, crop and zoom in/out of photos.
One other photo storage website is: www.snapfish.co.nz
Optical zoom is: Is a zoom function in the lens of the camera that you can apply before you take a photo.
Digital zoom is: applied after the photo is shot it magnifies the photo although the larger it is magnified the quality of the photo decreases.
Megapixel is: the term used for the number of pixels there are in a photograph. Each individual pixel contain a colour that all goes together to make up the whole picture.