Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I. Copyright © 2003 – 2009 Kenji Tachibana Mac & Digital Camera 8x slides

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Mac & Digital Camera: Overview C omputer: Something in common Both the Mac and your digital camera are computers. If you are computer phobic, this class may not be for you. Although many students who were new to the Mac have successfully passed this class with excellent Library Show displays.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Mac & Digital Camera: Special note D igital Camera: A computer Especially the DSLR’s, they can look and feel like the old ‘analogue’ film cameras at a glance. But, a closer inspection will quickly show you that it is a computer with lots of button, switches and it will not work without a power source. The point and shoot compact digital is much simpler but it still has its share of buttons, switches, and the powerful hunger for battery power. I will be describing the digital camera in general terms. Although, it will be up to you to figure out how the general ideas applies to your particular camera.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Mac & Digital Camera: PicBridge A lmost Computer Free: The digital camera makers have been trying to ‘free’ the digital camera from the computer ever since the beginning. PicBridge was developed in 2003 for CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association) for that purpose. It allows images to be printed directly from digital cameras to a printer without any computer interface. They have succeeded for the casual user. A snap shot shooter can easily print at home from their camera to a PicBridge capable printer.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Mac & Digital Camera: PicBridge A rchival: That the word Unless you hold stock in Epson, HP, or Canon, I do not recommend printing your own images. To get your home computer system to output archival photographic prints that are 99% predictable is an expensive affair even with PicBridge…

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Mac & Digital Camera: One-Hour Lab C ommercial Lab: Fast evolution One-Hour labs have turned around on a dime to meet the demands from the digital photographer. Today, a print from a Costco 1-Hour Lab can be cheaper and faster than making your own ‘archival’ prints at home. You’re the winner in that fast evolution. You can now use the Costco One-Hour Lab to get your Photoshop ‘custom processed’ image printed at the very low price of $1.50 per 8x10 ‘archival’ print. Did I archival… … …

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Mac & Digital Camera: Indispensible Photoshop D igital Camera: Processing required For the ‘Image Maker’, custom Photoshop lab work is not an option. The current digitals are amazing but it is far from perfect. At the current level of technology, consider that all digital images must have the basic lab work applied to them to force the image to tell your precise story.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Mac & Digital Camera: H istorical Facts: The current digital image starts its life as a black and white image. And it gets processed into a RGB full color image. This is true for 98% of all digital images. Samsung uses Foeven chips which starts out by seeing in full color. Also all digital images must be ‘sharpened’

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