Tut- 2 Digital Camers; use and application

Although we discuss digital cameras as being a new phenomenon that has taken to modern culture and changed the way to photograph, we cannot describe it as being a ‘new’ technology. The benefits of digital imagery is huge, its easy, its convenient and grants us the ability to take hundreds of photos at one event without a lot of effort. However to every plus there is a minus, digital cameras take away the speciality and effort of developing photos. We’ve almost learnt to live without hard copies of photos, instead we pile them all into folders on our computers.

With the developing phenonemum of digitial imgaery, other communication technolgies have had to join the saga to keep up. As cellphones become ever more common they continue to upgrade with new gadgets, one the first being an installed camera. Having cellphones with cameras allows the population to have a camera on them almost wherever they go, and the ability to send and receive digital imagery on the go. Both cellphone cameras and digital cameras are compatible with new age computers to download images onto. With computers comes access to the internet, and doorways to transfer images worldwide.

With the ease of taking photos that digital cameras have given us, also comes the ability to photograph others easily. With other technologies developing including Facebook and other social networking sites, the hundreds of amounts of photos are appearing online. Without ones knowledge there may be innocent or even compromising photos of them arising all around the world for anyone to view. There are huge ethical issues surrounding the ease of photographing others and keeping images for personal use, and digital cameras has only opened the doors to this being more common.

In some forms of Occupational Therapy digital imagery is proven to be an effective form of intervention. When creating communication assistive treatments, ‘real’ pictures are used to communicate concepts, wants and needs from those that are non verbal. Imagery is also used to photograph equipment, and strategies in ways the help remind the user of correct technique.

Flickr allows the user to upload multiple images into an organised online account. Flickr gives users the opportunities to edit there photos and create maps, photo books, frames and other designs that cant be shared with friends and family across the world.

Photobucket is another example of a photo storage website.

An optical lens physically extends towards the object in which you want to magnify where as a digital zoom crops an image and magnifies what has been cropped.


http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=399&pq-locale=en_NZ&_requestid=40100 8.45pm 15 march

The term megapixel literally means, one million pixels. Therefore the higher the megapixel on a digital camera the more detail that can be captured.

http://www.techterms.com/definition/megapixel, 8.50pm 15 march