Consumer Electronics February 8, 2006

What type of Digital Camera is right for me?

Types of digital cameras Basic Point and Shoot Advanced Point and Shoot Prosumer Professional- SLR

Basic Point and Shoot Tiny, fits in a pocket or part of a cell phone, use it anytime 1-3 Megapixels $ Good for snapshots, especially outdoors and web/ Usually has little optical zoom, may not have a flash or viewfinder May also function as a webcam

Basic Point and Shoot

Advanced Point and Shoot better pictures but still easy to use 3-5 Megapixels and up $ Good for snapshots, portraits and small enlargements- up to about 8X10 and web/ Typically 3X optical and additional digital zoom, and a built in flash May capture short video clips, have Macro (close-up) and other special effects

Advanced Point and Shoot

Prosumer prosumer (proh.SOO.mur) n. 1. A consumer who is an amateur in a particular field, but who is knowledgeable enough to require equipment that has some professional features ("professional" + "consumer").

Prosumer More control, zoom & features, but still lets you point and shoot 5 Megapixels and up $ Good for all types of pictures and larger enlargements Up to 12X optical zoom, built in and hot shoe flash options May include ability to manually control settings, image stabilization, burst mode Less shutter lag

Prosumer

dSLR- Digital Single Lens Reflex Gives you lots of choices and control $ If you really want control, more camera- like, can change lens, manually focus… Zoom depends on lens, flash options. May not have an LCD, uses mirror to view through the lens Almost no shutter lag- best type for shooting action stills No video

digital SLR

Software Organizing Picasa Adobe Photo Album Comcast Photoshow Editing Picasa Photoshop Elements

Sharing KodakGallery.com Shutterfly.com Flickr.com Yahoo photos Snapfish.com

MP3 Players Features and uses

What is MP3? Digital audio encoding and lossy compression format Designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners Also refers to files of sound or music recordings stored in the MP3 format on computers.

Types of MP3 Players Flash memory Hard drive Audio only Audio and pictures Video, too

Flash Memory MP3 Players Lower price No moving parts- so they don’t skip when dancing Small capacity (typically 128 MB-1GB) 4-20 hours of music storage Limited features (eg. iPod Shuffle)- although newer players (eg. iPod Nano) have more Simple to use

Flash Memory MP3 Players

Hard Drive MP3 Players Higher price Large capacity (typically 5-40GB) Music storage up to 15,000 songs Larger, sometimes color screen Photos,Video Audiobooks, FM transmitter Organizer, games, alarms, contacts…

Hard Drive MP3 Players

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