DIGITAL FILM MEMORY CARDS

   

Just like 35mm cameras need traditional "roll film", digital cameras need "digital film" memory cards to store pictures. Digital film comes in a number of formats, some more durable than others. The most popular formats are CompactFlash and Secure Digital (SD Card). When choosing a digital camera, you should consider the format of digital film that a camera uses.

Some formats, such as CompactFlash, allow additional features to be built into the memory card. For example, Lexar CompactFlash is speed rated to provide users with the minimum sustained write speed capable by the card with faster speeds helping the camera to perform at its best.

The number of images you can store in a memory card is based on the capacity of memory on the card, the resolution of your camera, and the quality selection you choose for the images and how the camera compresses the images. Before you settle on a specific size of memory card, be sure to get specific estimates from your camera manufacturer or reseller regarding how many pictures you can fit on a given-size card at each resolution.

Lexar makes memory cards in capacities of 32-megabytes to 8-Gigabytes. A 32-megabyte card in a 5-megapixel camera in high-resolution JPEG mode will store only about 12 images. While a 8-Gigabyte card will store more than 3000 images. When choosing a memory card, buy what you think you'll need for a maximum day's shooting. And remember, more memory means more pictures so buy more than you think you need. In the end, you'll be happy you did.

Most digital cameras include a starter memory card. Starter cards are usually low capacity memory cards that allow you to get started with your new camera right away, but ultimately become a source of frustration because of the limited number of images the camera is able to store. When you upgrade to a larger memory card, you can take more photos before you have to make decisions about which images to keep and which to delete. Most pro's use more than one memory card, filling one, inserting another, and continuing to shoot pictures just as they used to change the film. Pros will typically use 6 - 12 memory cards. Even if you're not that serious about photography, your best experience will be with 2 or 3 memory cards.

Some of the rationale for having more memory cards goes back to the fundamental difference between shooting digital versus film. With digital you no longer need to buy film. You can shoot pictures and never worry about the cost of film and developing, or even what the pictures look like, until you have a chance to cull them on your computer. You can even give the camera to a youngster to develop his or her photographic skills at virtually no cost. And you have the nearly instantaneous gratification of seeing the output increase the excitement. Don't let a simple thing like memory come between you and a photography experience of wanton abandon.

Article from: http://dp.lexar.com/tips-lessons/tips/digital-film-memory-cards

by: Meradith Catubig

Camera Phone. Camera Phone History.

Camera Phone Definition

A camera phone is a mobile phone which has a camera built in. Philippe Kahn invented the camera phone in June 1997. The first commercial camera phone was the J-SH04, made by Sharp.

The cameras typically use CMOS image sensors. This is due largely to reduced power consumption compared to CCD type cameras, which are also used. The lower power consumption prevents the camera from quickly depleting the phone's battery.

Major manufacturers include Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, and LG Electronics.

THE INSTAGRAM

Instagram founders turn two years of work into $1bn – only in Silicon Valley

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have made their fortunes remarkably quickly, even by Silicon Valley standards

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Kevin Systrom (right) with Mike Krieger at the Instagram offices in San Francisco. Photograph: Peter Dasilva/New York Times/Redux / eyevine

California has been famous since the gold rush for creating fortunes overnight. The Golden State was a dream factory for get-rich-quick schemes from pioneers with pickaxes to beautiful people aiming to be Hollywood stars. But only in Silicon Valley can a couple of 20-somethings turn less than two years of work into a $1bn (£630m) fortune.

Kevin Systrom, 28, joined the long line of technocrats turned plutocrats on Monday when he sold Instagram, a profitless photo sharing app that's less than two years old, for $1bn. He sold it to that other wunderkind, Mark Zuckerberg, 27, the Facebook founder whose social network is now worth an estimated $100bn.

PHOTO FAKING

History of Photo Faking

Almost as soon as the first photographs came out of cameras, people were using them to manipulate images.

Take, for example, the very famous portrait of Abraham Lincoln, standing with one hand on his desk. Analysis in the 20th century showed that his mole was on the wrong side of his face, and further research turned up a picture of North Carolina Congressman John Calhoun in exactly the same pose. Someone in the 1860s had taken Lincoln's face and pasted it onto Calhoun's body, and the resulting fake photo was spread all across the Union.

Through the Civil War, photo staging was much more common than photo editing. It was very difficult to get an "action" shot because of the long exposure times, so war photographers would pose their shots.

Later, through the early twentieth century, photo postcards showing monstrous fish, grasshoppers, and crops were very famous, and nearly all of them were made by merging two shots into the same frame. As the Dust Bowl ruined crops, the postcards of apples the size of watermelons and corn cobs as big as fireplace logs showed a very dark humor--almost a sick joke.

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Video Camera History

It's incredible to think just how far camcorder technology has come and evolved from its humble beginnings. Video cameras, like all forms of technology and gizmos and gadgets, have improved and become more user-friendly and more innovative over the years. That's nothing new, and there's no reason to trump the advancement of the video camera onto a higher pedestal than anything else. But, when one looks at the history, timeline and growth of the video camera, it is remarkable to see where it has come from, where it has gone, and where it will venture to in the future.

When video camcorders first arrived on the scene, they were big, heavy and awkward contraptions that need tapes or reels. They either rested uncomfortably upon the shoulder, or stood on tripods or legs. Their movement and portability was severely hindered and limited by wires, cords or cables. They could only be operated and used by specially trained people. And they could only record and play back in black and white. Skip ahead a few decades where we now are upon the digital age, with digital video cameras. Some dwell in the higher price range, with all the requisite bells & whistles and features. And some are less expensive than others. Most of today's modern digital camcorders do not use tapes at all. Nowadays, today's Digital camcorders are built with a hard drive included in the unit, so that it can store the movie right on the device itself. Which, in and of itself, also shows how far computer technology has evolved over the years.

Camera Lenses

                                            

A camera lens (also known as photographic lens or photographic objective) is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a camera body and mechanism to make images of objects either on photographic film or on other media capable of storing an image chemically or electronically.

While in principle a simple convex lens will suffice, in practice a compound lens made up of a number of optical lens elements is required to correct (as much as possible) the many optical aberrations that arise. Some aberrations will be present in any lens system. It is the job of the lens designer to balance these out and produce a design that is suitable for photographic use and possibly mass production.

There is no major difference in principle between a lens used for a still camera, a video camera, a telescope, a microscope, or other apparatus, but the detailed design and construction are different.

A lens may be permanently fixed to a camera, or it may be interchangeable with lenses of different focal lengths, apertures, and other properties.

                                    

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