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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

SLR Digital Camera Buying Guide

By Milos Pesic

No matter if you're looking for the Nikon SLR digital camera or Canon SLR digital camera, or just the SLR digital camera of any kind, this is the right place for you. However, point and shoot cameras were a good to start with, but now it is time to approach them more seriously. Although you are very attracted by them, you should know how intimidating those SLR cameras might be.

Before you choose a camera to buy, you would certainly like to find out more about its features. So, let's get at it and look at the facts. Just ask any of the digital photographers, and they'll tell you how challenging and demanding the market is. Manufacturers constantly produce new camera models at significantly lower prices simply to keep pace with other manufacturers.

So, it may seem unbelievable, but all this competition and high technology is about to make you a much happier customer. Pretty much all the best SLR digital cameras will do the job, and capture good photo images for you. In the variety of top rated cameras, you couldn't find a terrible SLR camera, even if you wanted to. Any of these cameras will certainly meet your needs. I, personally, like everything what Canon Rebel offers, but the Olympus Evolt E620 and the Nikon D40 are great, too.

Most often, these cameras cost between five hundred and a thousand dollars. Knowing that they are equipped with great features, they are actually worth that money. Any person who gave a huge amount of money for an early model of digital camera has already realized that.

Nonetheless, it appears that the consumers are not really aware of the fact that the greatest factor responsible for the quality of your photographic images has very little to do with the camera you have bought. Contrary to this, it has much to do with your ability to spot chances to take quality images and capture them. You couldn't believe that the remarkable images can come out of the lens of a cheap camera in the hands of a creative photographer.

More and more often people decide to go online in order to find cameras with single lens reflex. As there are lots of different models, and you want the camera you choose to suit your budget, it is not unusual that people would people decide to check the reviews online.

Despite the fact that there are hundreds of SLR camera models, you can simply go shopping on the Internet for the best SLR digital camera. So, it is time to make a decision. Just ask yourself whether you are going to spend your whole life looking, or just pick one and start capturing memories?

Monday, January 11, 2010

The Advantages of HD Digital Camcorders

By Milos Pesic

New technological devices appear more and more each day, particularly in the area of digital camcorders and mobile phones. Their price can be very high, but still it doesn't make problem to those individuals who would like to get a very effective HD camcorder that records fast.

And, you have certainly tried to find out why there are so many filmmakers? Well, it is because that they no longer need professional video cameras for shooting the movies they would like to make on their own. Now, they can simply do that with HD digital camcorders.

Taking into consideration their high resolution, it will look like you are making movie on the screen. Besides, they need batteries, which can be connected to the outlets if they run too low. Depending on the model, the hard drive can reach to as much as 60GB.

However, there are models with higher memory capacities. If you are looking for the camcorder which will best fit your needs, check the specs and the features and compare this with the other models. Make sure it sticks your budget, as well.

Furthermore, HD digital camcorders contain inputs making it simpler to upload the videos and images that were taken in the tool. The software is then connected to the component exclusively on HDTV. This gives you a chance to show the videos you have made for your family and friends straight away.

In addition, HD digital camcorders have another special feature- the timecode preset function. It can be of great benefit to the user as then he can coordinate the time codes of one camera to multiple cameras. Also, it can suit you to make your own movie.

In comparison with the normal perception, HD digital camcorders have up to 20 times bigger zoom. By means of the CMOS sensors, the consumer has the clear image of what he wants to see whenever he is filming.

Yet, the price of some models can be a little bit too high, but check what their specs and features are. The price goes with the features.

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Photography: An Art Or A Passion

By Jacob Ross

Do you have a hawk eye for perfection? Do you look for something extraordinary even in ordinary things? If yes, then Photography is your passion.

Photography is multi - dimensioned. For some it's a mere capture of beauty & for some it's an art to make the world around them beautiful by their skills of photography. It is a unique and creative medium of self-expression. It is an art form requiring aesthetic sense as well as technical expertise. Being a creative medium, photography requires more of inherent talent for success. It requires appreciation of the art & a passion to grow in it.

Compared to other arts, Photography is capable of capturing the flying moment, the fixed and never-changing moment of reality. Photography breaks the pace of the world we live in. It is an art of playing with reality, an art of manipulating & beautifying the nature around us. Photographers decide what to take a photo of, what elements to exclude and what angle to frame the photo. Along with the context that a photograph is received in, photography is definitely a subjective form.

It is rightly said that the artist should never write about his art - the artist speaks in terms of his medium. A great photographer can speak about his art through his work. His vision & skills come alive in the world captured by him.

Photography can be a medium to enhance one's technical expertise or to satify one's creative aspirations. A photographer is not the one who merely captures & puts across the beauty around him, instead he is the one who captures the most non - appealing subject & turns it into the most appreciated art form.

The concept of Photography hasn't been well understood yet. For some people, a photograph is an optically accurate impression of the world, for others, it is mainly a way of remembering people and places. Some view it as a sign of bourgeois life, a kind of addiction of the middle class, whilst others see it as a troublesome interloper that has confused people's ideas of reality and fine art to the point that they have difficulty even defining what a photograph is. For some, the whole question of finding photography's nature is itself misguided from the beginning.

Photography as its basic definition goes is the art of bringing still life alive. This product of human creativity was created by many scientists and enthusiast who wanted to learn more about this strange technique of capturing light. While photography has been in the art world since the early 20th century, many artists still argue that photography is the mechanical reproduction of an image, a place, a thing, its exact reproduction.

But the question remains can any photo ever be perfect capture? This has been debated all along and the answer to this is still unknown.

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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Image Based Presentations With PowerPoints PhotoAlbum Command

By Andrew Whiteman

PowerPoint presentations are a superb tool for getting a message across to an audience, to potential clients and to your own company and images are great for adding impact to a PowerPoint presentation. So much so that PowerPoint includes a feature that lets you automatically create a complete presentation from a group of images.

Naturally, creating a presentation in this way can only be done if the pictures relate very closely to the main content of your presentation. One example might be a presentation given during product training which requires detailed photographs of each product.

To get started you need to bring up the New Presentation task pane. To do this, choose File - New. Next, click on "Photo Album" in the New Presentation task pane window.

Clicking on the Photo Album option displays a window in which you begin by choosing the images required for your presentation. Just click on the button labelled File/Disk and select the images. Alternatively, click on Camera/Scanner and load the images directly from your scanner or digital camera.

The Photo Album window is very versatile. Once, you have imported your pictures, it allows you to reorder them by selecting and image and clicking on the up and down arrows. If you change your mind and decide to delete an image, no problem. Just click on the name of the image then click the Remove button.

Having got your images in the right order, you can turn your attention to the tonal values in each image. If any of them needs adjustments, you can do one of four operations by clicking the appropriate icon: increase contrast, lower contrast, increase brightness, lower brightness. There are two further icons which allow you to rotate the image clockwise or anti-clockwise.

In addition to the images, you will almost certainly want to add some text on each of the slides. From the drop-down menu marked Picture Layout, you can indicate your preferred slide setup: one, two or four images; with or without a title. There is also a check-box for you to choose whether your titles should be above or below the images.

There is also an option to change what is referred to as the Frame Shape. The default is rectangle. However, the Frame Shape drop-down menu will also let you choose rounded rectangle, bevelled, oval, corner tabs, square tabs or plaque tabs.

That it; you've finished. When you click OK, PowerPoint will create the presentation generating a separate slide for each image, using the settings that you specified in the Photo Album dialogue. The final touch is to go to each slide and type some text into the title box. Once you've done that, you have yourself a PowerPoint presentation. How painless is that!

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Friday, January 1, 2010

Sony, Samsung and Toshiba - A Digital Cameras Best Buys Review

By Angela Sapiana

A Digital Cameras Best Buys review set. There are several digital camera companies that make small point and shoot cameras. Among them have risen Sony, Samsung and Toshiba. Here's our take on where these three digital camera companies sit with their current, best camera.

Samsung's new digital camera, DIGIMAX S1000 is one of my new favorites. For amateur photographers looking for Facebook-style photos, this one requires no focusing. Ahead of its class, the DIGIMAX S1000 comes with a 10.1 mega pixel image. It also offers a customizable "color effect", "highlight" and "photo frame" feature. This is a great camera for the MySpace, Facebook, backyard photographer who is somewhat knowledgeable in digital photography.

Toshiba Digital Cameras: Toshiba cameras are traditionally of very good quality, with excellent memory capacity. If you're annoyed each time you run out of memory, get a Toshiba with an SD card and that shouldn't be a problem. Make sure you don't get one of the High Performance SD cards though, the Toshiba can't read those. I would not recommend these cameras for professional work because they lack the sheer power of Sony - they are great amateur cameras.

Sony Digital Cameras: I have had the most experience with Sony cameras, and feel they are best digital cameras for mid-tier users. Sony's top seller is the Cybershot DSC-T10. It has 7.2 mega-pixel, 3x optical zoom and video mode. It also comes with a basic memory stick storage of 56mb. From an ease of use standpoint, Toshiba reigns mainly because the Sony models always have technical features. While not great, I think you'll find it will do the job for mid-tier users.

Http://www.digital-cameras-best-buys.com is a terrific information-based site for reviews on all things camera. From underwater digital cameras to camera bags and digital cameras best buys, there are few sites that compare.

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