Things you should know about digital cameras

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Things you should know about digital cameras
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What the is a Megapixel?

• A megapixel is about one million pixels.
• The more pixels you have in your picture, the
  clearer it will look and the larger you can
  enlarge it without losing clarity.

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How many Megapixels is enough?

• Friends and parties 4
• Printable, but not very big
• Good size for simple edits
• Scenery and light artistic work 5
• Printable up to almost full page
• Good for edits
• Heavy photography and lots of editing 8
• Very printable
• Excellent resolution for edits
• Professional photography Consider SLRs with 9
  MP
• Big price jump
• Loaded with features that can help make your
  pictures look amazing
• Very printable and editable

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1 Megapixel
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3 Megapixels
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5 Megapixels
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Zoom

• Optical Zoom
• Does all zooming using optics
• No image loss
• No loss in clarity
• Look for at least 3x optical zoom

• Digital Zoom
• Cheep
• Huge image loss quickly
• You can enlarge on the computer better than the
  camera can with digital zoom
• Shut digital zoom off if you can so you dont
  ruin pictures

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Memory Types

• Compact Flash (CF)?
• Largest physically
• Largest storage capability
• Most flexible allows powered devices such as
  microdrives
• SD
• Smaller physically
• XD
• Super small and thin
• Super expensive and uncommon
• Sony MemoryStick Pro/Duo
• Only found in Sony cameras
• Not too expensive for its size

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How Much Memory is Enough?