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CHOOSING & USING A DIGITAL CAMERA

Choosing & Using A Digital Camera - The #1 guide to Choosing & Using a Digital Camera

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A complete guide to understanding digital camera features and how you use them for better photographs.
New, the first printed Short Courses digital photography book for people thinking about buying a digital camera. This beautifully written guide, pulls together answers to the questions you might have about Choosing & Using A Digital Camera.  Even if you already have a camera, this book will be very helpful in understanding many digital camera features and terms.  Excellent Information.   87 pages.

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Nikon Coolpix 950 Digital Camera Book Introduction. gif INTRODUCTION

New, the first printed Short Courses digital photography book for people thinking about buying a digital camera. The book explains all features and why you might want them. The camera section of the Interactive Buying Guide then lists the most popular cameras currently available and links to hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of sources of information on each camera including detailed specifications and reviews. This beautifully written guide, provides answers to the questions you might have, including the following:

  • How good are digital cameras?
  • What features should I look for in a digital camera and how do I use them?
  • What resolution do I need?
  • Do I want a point-and-shoot camera or one with creative controls?
  • How important are accessories?
  • How should I choose the company to buy from?
  • What alternatives are there to a digital camera?

 


 Nikon Coolpix 950 Digital Camera Book Contents . gifCONTENTS

Preface

Part I. Introduction

1. What is a Digital Photograph?

  • Pixels-Dots are all there are
  • Resolution

2. Why Go Digital?

  • Free photography, photographic freedom
  • The three steps of digital photography

3. A Jump Start in Digital Photography

  • Step 1. Get yourself a photo-editing program
  • Step 2. Get yourself an image
  • Step 3. E-mail someone an image
  • Step 4. Start your own Web page

4. How a Digital Camera Works

  • The exposure
  • It's all black and white after all
  • From black and white to color
  • There's a computer in your camera

Part II. The Art of Choosing

5. Types of Digital Cameras

  • Point and shoot cameras
  • Megapixel cameras
  • Multi-megapixel cameras
  • Professional cameras
  • Video cameras

6. Image Sensors

  • Types of image sensors
  • Image sensor resolution
  • Aspect ratios
  • Color depth
  • Sensitivity
  • Image quality
  • Frame rate

7. Image Storage

  • Removable vs. fixed storage
  • Storage capacity
  • Removable storage-similarities and differences
  • Flash memory cards
  • Types of flash cards
  • Magnetic disks

8. Downloading Images

  • What to plug in
  • Where to plug it
  • Video out for television display
  • Downloading to a printer
  • E-mail and Web sites

9. Image Compression & File Formats

  • What is compression?
  • Digital camera file formats

10. Preview Screens & Viewfinders

  • Preview screens
  • Viewfinders

11. Lenses

  • Focal length
  • Zoom lenses
  • Macro mode
  • Interchangeable lenses and lens accessories
  • Maximum aperture
  • Detachable and rotatable lenses
  • Glass or plastic?

12. Creative Controls

  • Automatic controls
  • Auto-exposure
  • How auto-exposure works
  • Exposure compensation
  • Exposure control
  • Focus
  • Exposure and focus lock
  • White balance

13. Automatic Flash

  • Flash range
  • Flash modes
  • Fill flash
  • Freezing action
  • There's gotta be a law
  • Red-eye reduction
  • External flash units
  • Slave flash
  • Ring flash

14. Batteries

  • Types of rechargeable batteries
  • Prolonging your charge
  • Batteries die too
  • Flying
  • Recycling

15. Other Features

  • Look and feel
  • Size and weight
  • Orientation sensor
  • Continuous photography
  • Panoramic mode
  • Multiple exposures
  • Tripod mount
  • Self-time/remote control
  • Date/time indicators
  • Written annotation
  • Sound recording
  • Software
  • Operating system

Part III. The Science of Buying

16. Is it Time to Buy?

  • Reasons to buy
  • The curse of Moore's Law
  • The pros and cons of digital photography

17. The Rules of the Shopping Game

  • Check Deja News
  • Check price comparison sites
  • Explore on-line auctions
  • Watch out for unbundling
  • Avoid gray market products
  • Check postage rates
  • Avoid extended warranties
  • Check return policies, restocking fees
  • Buy no extras
  • Shop locally-support your local economy

18. Camera Selection Checklist

19. Camera Company Web Addresses

Part IV. Glossary

20. Digital Photography Terms

 

Appendix


Nikon Coolpix 950 Digital Camera Book Preface . gif PREFACE

Digital photography begins with capturing images in a digital format. You can do this by taking photographs with a film camera and then scanning the slides, negatives, or prints. However, it's much faster and easier to capture images with a digital camera. At the moment there are many digital cameras and new ones seem to be introduced weekly. If you are at all like me, these amazing devices are tempting indeed.

Cameras don't look at all like they used to. Courtesy of Sony. sony d700a digital camera

It's clear that almost everyone wants to know more about what features to consider when buying a camera and how to use those features once they own one. Even if you're an experienced photographer, digital cameras introduce new criteria that you have to consider in your buying decision. This book pulls together unbiased, straightforward answers to the questions you might have, including the following:

  • Why go digital?
  • What is a digital photograph?
  • How does a digital camera work?
  • What is digital photography?
  • How good are digital cameras?
  • What features should I look for in a digital camera?
  • What resolution do I need?
  • Do I want a point-and-shoot camera or one with creative controls?
  • How important are accessories?
  • How should I choose the company to buy from?
  • What alternatives are there to a digital camera?
  • How do I use the features my camera has?

This book sweeps away unnecessary complexity and explains what you really need to know about buying the perfect camera for your needs. Although comprehensive, it keeps you from getting lost in a jungle of trivia. It doesn't just describe the many camera features to consider, it shows you why they are important and how they affect your photographs.


Nikon Coolpix 950 Digital Camera Book Reviews . gifREVIEWS

Here's what some of our first readers had to say:

"I've never contacted an author about his/her work before as I've always felt that I've either gotten what I paid for or somewhat less. Your "Choosing & Using A Digital Camera" deserves comment however. I've been a technologist for 25 years and have seen many documents dealing with various parts of the subject. Yours, however, is the most elegant and well written piece I've yet to come across. All my questions have been answered to the level where my comfort with the subject (Digital Cameras) is rather good.  I've ordered a Canon A50 and with the aid of your work will only have to concentrate on the creative aspects of the art." (Wayne)

"I purchased your "Choosing and Using a Digital Camera." Before buying and reading it, I had spent MANY hours searching for and reading information about digital cameras. Since research is my business, this is something I am typically better at than the average person--but I admit I was feeling a little confused about what I really wanted to purchase.

Then I read your book--and I was able to focus on what was really important to me. I went back to reviewing information about different cameras and was quickly able to make a decision--keeping in mind my level of expertise (low but I was very interested in learning), what I wanted from the camera, what I was willing to spend, and the feature/price ratio offered by different models. I bought an Epson 750Z (and used the web to find a very good price), and I have been totally satisfied with my choice." (Nancy)

"Received the book today and began to browse it while doing some computer work. Excellent! I was doing some system reconfiguration, and I actually 'had to' pause in order to read the whole thing. I've had a 'Teach Yourself Digital Photography In 14 Days' (Carla Rose) for a while and find its ton of information valuable as an 'amateur' photographer since age 12, but I have yet to 'have to' read a complete chapter." (Peter Porrello)

"Well written and laid out (even the humor); good organization, and directed at the right audience. Very nice." (Pete)

"We recently purchased your new book and just want to let you know that we appreciate it very much. We want to buy a digital camera very much, but before your book we did not know how to become an 'informed consumer'. Thank you so much. It is easy to read AND to understand. I also appreciate  the online reviews of the products." (M)

"I have just completed your Choosing & Using book and found it is wonderful. You have to be very pleased at how you are helping others. I, for one, am telling others about your site and showing them the course (which I purchased)." (MK)

Your material on digital cameras helped me select a fine camera, the Olympus C-2000 Zoom. Now your book on that camera is helping me to use it better. I am having a ball. (Marshall)

 

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