Using your digital camera DIGITAL MEDIA Presented By Andre Daniels.

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Using your digital camera DIGITAL MEDIA Presented By Andre Daniels

 Getting ready Read your manual, charge batteries. Turn on your camera to auto and remove the lens cap Conserve batteries – turn off LCD monitor  Framing the image The Viewfinder shows you the scene you are going to capture You can Zoom in or Zoom out on an object  Autofocus The area you place in the focus area in the center of the viewfinder is used to determine the sharpest part of the scene

 Autoexposure Programmed autoexposure measures light reflecting from the scene and uses these readings to set the best possible exposure.  Autoflash If the light is too dim, the autoexposure system will fire the camera's built-in flash to illuminate the scene. If the flash is going to fire, a flash lamp usually glows red when you press the shutter-release button halfway down.  Automatic whitebalance The color cast in a photograph is affected by the color of the light illuminating the scene so the camera automatically adjusts color balance to make white objects in the scene look white in the photo.

Compression  Digital cameras store images in a format called JPEG after its developer, the Joint Photographic Experts Group and pronounced "jay-peg." This file format not only compresses images, it also allows you to specify how much they are compressed.

Image Size  In addition to offering two compression modes, many cameras let you also change image size as a way of controlling the size of image files. Because you can squeeze more 640 x 480 (VGA) images into a storage device than you can squeeze 1600 x 1200 images, there may be times when you'll want to switch to a smaller size and sacrifice quality for quantity.

Exposure  The amount of light captured by the camera’s image sensor  Aperture and shutterspeed settings are ways of controlling the exposure  The higher the aperture (f-stop) the smaller the opening into the lens (less light)  The slower the shutterspeed the more blurred a moving object will appear.

Video & Audio  Some cameras allow you to record video.  Commonly it will be in avi, quicktime movie, or mpeg file format.  You can add audio notes to pictures taken

Choosing camera modes  Fully Automatic mode sets the shutter speed and aperture, white balance, and focus without your intervention. This mode allows you to shoot without paying attention to settings so you can concentrate on composition and focus.  Programmed mode lets you select from a variety of situations such as portrait, landscape, or sports. The camera then sets the aperture and shutter speed for these situations.

Modes continued  Aperture priority (or aperture preferred) mode lets you select the aperture (lens opening) needed to obtain the depth of field you want and the exposure system automatically sets the shutter speed to give you a good exposure. You select this mode whenever depth of field is most important. To be sure everything is sharp, as in a landscape, select a small aperture. The same holds true for close-up photography where depth of field is a major concern. To throw the background out of focus so it's less distracting in a portrait, select a large aperture.  Aperture priority (or aperture preferred) mode lets you select the aperture (lens opening) needed to obtain the depth of field you want and the exposure system automatically sets the shutter speed to give you a good exposure. You select this mode whenever depth of field is most important. To be sure everything is sharp, as in a landscape, select a small aperture. The same holds true for close-up photography where depth of field is a major concern. To throw the background out of focus so it's less distracting in a portrait, select a large aperture.  Shutter priority (or shutter priority) mode lets you choose the shutter speed you need to freeze or deliberately blur camera or subject movement and the camera automatically sets the aperture to give you a good exposure. You select this mode when the portrayal of motion is most important. For example, when photographing action scenes, such as those encountered by wildlife photographers, sports photographers, and photojournalists, shutter-priority mode might be best. It lets you be sure your shutter speed is fast enough to freeze the action or slow enough to blur it  Manual mode lets you select both the shutter speed and the aperture.

Reference   Digital Video issue #209  Digital Camera magazine issue# 14 December 2003