Using a Digital Camera Beginning to use your settings menu
6/18/ What do you need to get started? Cables –Power, battery charger –Camera to computer (USB) –Camera to TV (AV) Battery Card (Compact Flash, Memory Stick) Manuals
6/18/ Turning the Camera On Turn camera on
6/18/ Taking Photos
6/18/ Viewing Photos Play or view photos
6/18/ Viewing Photos
6/18/ Zooming
6/18/ Flash Options
6/18/ Flash
6/18/ Focus
6/18/ Focus
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Date and Time Stamp If you haven ‟ t already done so, be sure your camera is stamping the correct date and time on your image files. This bit of information (or what is called "metadata" useful for archiving and managing your photos.
Shooting Beyond Automatic you gain more control over exposure settings can be more creative with your photography.
6/18/2016Free template from 15 Changing Settings/Menu
6/18/2016Free template from 16 Moving Through Settings Navigation button
6/18/2016Free template from 17 Settings - File Size (Pixels) Image Size/Resolution
6/18/2016Free template from 18 Settings - Quality, Compression
Metering Options Search through menu for Metering Options Most common patterns are: –Center-weighted – measures light in entire picture –Evaluative - divides image into sections and computes best evaluation of metering –Spot – determines exposure at the center of viewing area 6/18/2016Free template from 19
6/18/ What is compression? Compression or Quality Camera does a trade off… It takes away some of the quality, but saves space. JPEG or RAW file type Raw for detailed editing, e.g., Photoshop s
6/18/ A closer look at compression
6/18/ How Many Images on Camera? The resolution factor File Size (number of pixels in the picture) –640x480 –2260x1614
6/18/ How Many Images on Camera? Size of storage card (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc)
Continuous Shooting Most digital cameras come with Continuous or multi-shooting Feature takes several shots per second. most effective on DSLR
Display Control Turn off LCD display to conserve the battery Try clicking display button a few times to see display options Changing the details that show on display –In manual mode setting - can quickly select options –Histogram Graph on right too bright Graph on left too dark 6/18/
6/18/ Getting Images Off Camera Use cable and software Use card reader
6/18/2016Free template from 27 Deleting Images Off Camera
6/18/2016Free template from 28 Extra Stuff You’ll Want Extra battery Card reader Additional card (with more space)
6/18/ Manual Missing? Go to camera website –Click on the links tab –Select company –search under support or manuals, etc…
6/18/ Review Turn camera on Take photos and view photos Use flash, focus and zoom Change settings related to size and quality Delete images on camera