1. Using a Digital Camera Beginning to use your settings menu

2. 6/18/2016 2 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

3. 6/18/2016 3 Turning the Camera On Turn camera on

4. 6/18/2016 4 Taking Photos

5. 6/18/2016 5 Viewing Photos Play or view photos

6. 6/18/2016 6 Viewing Photos

7. 6/18/2016 7 Zooming

8. 6/18/2016 8 Flash Options

9. 6/18/2016 9 Flash

10. 6/18/2016 10 Focus

11. 6/18/2016 11 Focus

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13. 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.

14. Shooting Beyond Automatic you gain more control over exposure settings can be more creative with your photography.

15. 6/18/2016Free template from www.brainybetty.com 15 Changing Settings/Menu

16. 6/18/2016Free template from www.brainybetty.com 16 Moving Through Settings Navigation button

17. 6/18/2016Free template from www.brainybetty.com 17 Settings - File Size (Pixels) Image Size/Resolution

18. 6/18/2016Free template from www.brainybetty.com 18 Settings - Quality, Compression

19. 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 www.brainybetty.com 19

20. 6/18/2016 20 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

21. 6/18/2016 21 A closer look at compression

22. 6/18/2016 22 How Many Images on Camera? The resolution factor File Size (number of pixels in the picture) –640x480 –2260x1614

23. 6/18/2016 23 How Many Images on Camera? Size of storage card (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc)

24. Continuous Shooting Most digital cameras come with Continuous or multi-shooting Feature takes several shots per second. most effective on DSLR

25. 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 6/18/2016 25

26. 6/18/2016 26 Getting Images Off Camera Use cable and software Use card reader

27. 6/18/2016Free template from www.brainybetty.com 27 Deleting Images Off Camera

28. 6/18/2016Free template from www.brainybetty.com 28 Extra Stuff You’ll Want Extra battery Card reader Additional card (with more space)

29. 6/18/2016 29 Manual Missing? Go to camera website www.dcresource.com –Click on the links tab –Select company –search under support or manuals, etc…

30. 6/18/2016 30 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