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Re: Camera ?'s
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lugnet.publish
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Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:21:26 GMT
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"John Henry Kruer" <jhkruer@yahoo.com> writes:
> In lugnet.publish, William R. Ward writes:
> > Personally I leave my camera set to 640x480 most of the time, though
> > it can do 1024x768 (1.3 megapixels). That's all you need if you're
> > just going to post it on the web. Higher resolution (i.e. more
> > megapixels) is only needed if you want to print the pictures on paper
> > or show them on a monitor locally - for the web, they're too big (in
> > terms of bytes). • [...]
> The primary use of high-res images for me on the internet is to crop out
> sections, making very nice close-ups.
Doing film photography I learned that it's best to do your cropping
when you take the picture, rather than afterward. So I try to compose
all my pictures how I want them in the end, without cropping. Not
that I always succeed, and sometimes it isn't possible to zoom tight
enough for instance.
[...]
> We're both right.
> http://www.dpreview.com/learn/Glossary/Digital_Imaging/Digital_zoom_01.htm
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> Digital zoom can be cropping out the center OR interloping a section to make
> it larger. That's why on my camera, you can digital zoom on highest-res
> images. But you said your camera is old, so maybe that's why you'rs has a
> 'cropping' zoom.
Ah, interesting. I didn't know that.
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> > Depends on how technical you want to get. My camera has the
> > tree/flower setting and several flash modes, and that's enough for my
> > purposes - I get much better results with my digital than I do with my
> > old manual-focus Minolta SLR's.
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> Well... it depends on the conditions.
And on one's skill with the SLR, which I'll admit are not the best in
my case :-) Someday I'll take a photography class and figure out how
to use that thing correctly...
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> My camera uses 1750mAh NiMH batteries,and I have to say that I like them a
> lot. Very useful things, only they take 13 hours to charge. I have 3 sets
> of them around, so there's always power around.
I only have 2 sets of batteries, but it's enough for my purposes.
They take about 8-10 hours to charge I believe. But if I don't use
the flash or the preview screen, I can go for weeks on end without
charging. When I went to Germany last year I was gone for 12 days and
took hundres of pictures without recharging once.
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> Mine didn't require software to use the USB. The software it came with was
> pretty bad, and was way to slow and cumbersome. I just use windows
> explorer. But I still use USB... my parents don't want to get anything better.
If you have a new enough version of Windows to support that, then I
suppose that works fine. But if you want to use another OS, or an
older version of Windows, you might have problems. I think it's still
true that PCMCIA is more readily compatible with more computers,
assuming they have a PCMCIA slot that is...
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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Consistency is not really a human trait.
--Maude (from the film "Harold & Maude")
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| (...) Well, not always. What I ment is that, using high resolutions, you can, in effect, do a 'digital zoom' on an image-editing program. For example: (URL) took a 2048x1536 picture, then cropped out a 640x480 section, which held a monkey. The (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish)
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