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11 Outdoor Photography Tips for Shooting with Your SmartphoneJeff Mohlman
The document provides 11 tips for taking outdoor photographs with a smartphone. It recommends cleaning the smartphone lens, using camera accessories for better control, moving closer to the subject rather than using digital zoom, keeping the camera steady with a tripod if needed, skipping the flash, keeping the horizon straight, using RAW or HDR modes, including interesting foreground details, managing sun flares, experimenting with composition, adding elements to show scale, and optimizing the camera with accessories like the Pictar One grip.
This document provides tips for taking photos at the Olympics from photographer Will Johnston. It discusses how to avoid camera shake by keeping the camera steady, to continuously take photos since the action changes quickly, to zoom in and avoid using flash, to try different angles and perspectives beyond just the center of action, and to have fun capturing the atmosphere. It also provides examples of camera types like compact, SLR, and compact system cameras, and recommends several models for different budgets and experience levels.
This document provides an overview of digital photography and using a digital camera. It discusses how digital cameras have become more affordable and accessible. It then covers various uses of digital photos including capturing memories, sharing photos online, and using the camera as a scanner. The document also discusses different types of cameras, camera features, settings, and basic functions. It provides guidance on transferring photos from the camera to a computer and using Picasa software to organize, edit, print and share digital photos online.
10 street photography tips and tricks to help you capture the decisive momentJanique Goff Madison
If you’re new to street photography, you’re soon going to learn it’s much more than taking snapshots in public places. To create quality, compelling photographs you need to have both skill and knowledge. It isn’t easy, but with practice — and patience — you’ll be able to improve your abilities and start making great street photographs. Don’t worry; we’re not going to push you out into the world with no tools to survive. We’re much kinder than that. From the best gear to how to shoot like a ninja, here are 10 street photography tips and tricks to help you step out of your comfort zone and start making great images.
The document discusses different types of cameras including flatbed scanners, webcams, mobile phones, and standalone digital cameras. It provides details on how each works, advantages and disadvantages of each type, and examples of images taken with different cameras to demonstrate concepts like depth of field and white balance.
4 things to understands about transparent displays outdoorDannyGreer1
Transparent displays come in two main types - LCD and OLED. LCD screens require backlighting and are best for outdoor use with sufficient light, while OLED screens emit their own light making them better for low-light settings. While OLED screens produce better image quality, they are more expensive and susceptible to damage from sunlight. The document also notes that transparent displays can be made more engaging by adding interactivity, and they remain an appealing visual technology despite being available for some time.
11 Outdoor Photography Tips for Shooting with Your SmartphoneJeff Mohlman
The document provides 11 tips for taking outdoor photographs with a smartphone. It recommends cleaning the smartphone lens, using camera accessories for better control, moving closer to the subject rather than using digital zoom, keeping the camera steady with a tripod if needed, skipping the flash, keeping the horizon straight, using RAW or HDR modes, including interesting foreground details, managing sun flares, experimenting with composition, adding elements to show scale, and optimizing the camera with accessories like the Pictar One grip.
This document provides tips for taking photos at the Olympics from photographer Will Johnston. It discusses how to avoid camera shake by keeping the camera steady, to continuously take photos since the action changes quickly, to zoom in and avoid using flash, to try different angles and perspectives beyond just the center of action, and to have fun capturing the atmosphere. It also provides examples of camera types like compact, SLR, and compact system cameras, and recommends several models for different budgets and experience levels.
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10 street photography tips and tricks to help you capture the decisive momentJanique Goff Madison
If you’re new to street photography, you’re soon going to learn it’s much more than taking snapshots in public places. To create quality, compelling photographs you need to have both skill and knowledge. It isn’t easy, but with practice — and patience — you’ll be able to improve your abilities and start making great street photographs. Don’t worry; we’re not going to push you out into the world with no tools to survive. We’re much kinder than that. From the best gear to how to shoot like a ninja, here are 10 street photography tips and tricks to help you step out of your comfort zone and start making great images.
The document discusses different types of cameras including flatbed scanners, webcams, mobile phones, and standalone digital cameras. It provides details on how each works, advantages and disadvantages of each type, and examples of images taken with different cameras to demonstrate concepts like depth of field and white balance.
4 things to understands about transparent displays outdoorDannyGreer1
Transparent displays come in two main types - LCD and OLED. LCD screens require backlighting and are best for outdoor use with sufficient light, while OLED screens emit their own light making them better for low-light settings. While OLED screens produce better image quality, they are more expensive and susceptible to damage from sunlight. The document also notes that transparent displays can be made more engaging by adding interactivity, and they remain an appealing visual technology despite being available for some time.
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The document discusses various aspects of digital cameras, including sensor size, ISO, image quality at high ISO settings, file formats like JPEG, and camera handling techniques. It provides examples of image noise at different ISO levels on the Pentax K100d camera. It also compares camera-based and lens-based image stabilization systems, as well as resolutions suitable for different uses.
Digital Cameras Dec 2008 Ppt 2007 Slideshared6mentors
The document discusses various aspects of digital cameras and photography, including:
1. It explains key camera components like pixels, lenses, apertures, and shutters and how they impact image quality. Higher megapixel counts and quality lenses provide more detailed photos.
2. Different types of digital cameras are described like point-and-shoots, compacts, superzooms, and DSLRs, along with their typical price ranges and features.
3. Common photo file storage options and battery types for digital cameras are also outlined. Proper battery selection is important for camera performance.
The Nikon Coolpix L120 is a modest super zoom camera that is easy to utilize. There isn’t anything troublesome about this camera by any means, change the zoom if it intrigues you, and press the screen button. The camera will accomplish practically everything and you will not need to contemplate any exposure settings whatsoever. You can choose a scene mode or an alternate ISO setting assuming you need to, however, there’s nothing else to it.
This document provides 10 tips for taking better photos with a digital camera, beginning with using the camera's settings to warm tones and reduce glare, using flash to illuminate outdoor portraits, using macro mode for close-ups, ensuring level horizons, using large memory cards, adjusting resolution based on intended use, using a tripod or self-timer for stability, and exploiting long exposures to capture motion in water or other scenes. The key message is that digital cameras alone do not make great photos and that skillful use of settings and techniques is important to get the best results.
Polarized 3D glasses allow viewers to see 3D images by restricting the light that reaches each eye. They work by projecting two slightly different images that are polarized differently. The glasses contain polarized filters for each eye that allow only the corresponding image to pass through to the proper eye. This technique was developed in the 1930s and was widely used for 3D movies in the 1950s. It provides full color 3D images using inexpensive glasses but has limitations such as reduced resolution from sharing the screen between the two images.
SAMSUNG UNVEILS ST550(TL225) AND ST500(TL220) DIGITAL COMPACT CAMERAS INNOVA...korina nariko
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The Samsung ST550 is a compact camera with a difference. Instead of one LCD screen it has two. In addition to the 3.5-inch screen on the rear, it has a front facing 1.5-inch LCD too.
Tikaway glasses are a pair of glasses connected to a live sharing mobile application. They function as a camera that allows the user to film or take photos without being an active participant in the scene. The glasses have a battery that requires charging for 3-4 hours and store photos and videos on a micro SD card. Users can turn the glasses on/off with a button, start video recordings by pressing the button for a few seconds, and take photos when the LED flashes blue once. Recorded content can be accessed by connecting the glasses to a computer via USB cable. Tikaway glasses have several potential uses including in industry, where technicians can access machine manuals through linked smartphones to quickly troubleshoot problems.
The document discusses a proposed new product called the "Now Cam", which is a 120 degree field of view camcorder and Bluetooth speaker. It addresses the declining camera market due to smartphone proliferation. The "Now Cam" is unique in that it combines camera, video recording, photo transfer, and Bluetooth speaker functionality into a compact and rugged device. A market analysis is presented arguing there is still demand for specialized cameras. The document provides details on the "Now Cam's" design, features, target market, and revenue model to justify its commercial viability.
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Have you ever wanted to take a family photo shoot for Christmas, birthdays, special events or a keepsake, but find the entire process too stressful? This slideshow aims to make this entire process of a family photo shoot much easier, and budget friendly. You can make a superb, graphic designed photo gift using these techniques and budget equipment, and there are links that will work for you in this slideshow to make that photo shoot easy, fun and achievable with your family.
The Nikon Coolpix L820 is a high-zoom computerized compact camera including a 30x optical zoom, back-enlightened 16 megapixel CMOS sensor, 1080p FullHD video and EXPEED C2 processor. Nikon refers to the L820 as being shrewd with pictures by using the zoom, easy to use interface and a back-enlightened sensor for low light picture taking. With our survey test molded in a serious shine maroon completion, Nikon’s spending plan superzoom Coolpix L820 positively endeavors to stand apart from the handset-employing swarms.
The Nikon Coolpix P500 is the best superzoom camera for individuals who require the broadest conceivable focal length range in the most compact body. Supplanting the P100 which offered a simple 26x zoom, it prods in front of its main rival, the PowerShot SX30 IS, by prudence of offering a colossal 36x optical reach (to the Canon’s ‘pitiful’ 35x). Going with this mammoth zoom is a 12.1 megapixel back enlightened CMOS sensor, which ought to hypothetically give more prominent low light viability.
The W300 is Nikon’s one of the best compact cameras, a pocket-sized simple to use intended to endure nearly everything life can come up with. It’s resistant to the residue, waterproof to a profundity of 30 meters, freeze-evidence to – 10ºC and can be dropped onto a hard floor from up to 2.4 meters without breaking.
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The Samsung ST550 is a compact camera with a difference. Instead of one LCD screen it has two. In addition to the 3.5-inch screen on the rear, it has a front facing 1.5-inch LCD too.
Tikaway glasses are a pair of glasses connected to a live sharing mobile application. They function as a camera that allows the user to film or take photos without being an active participant in the scene. The glasses have a battery that requires charging for 3-4 hours and store photos and videos on a micro SD card. Users can turn the glasses on/off with a button, start video recordings by pressing the button for a few seconds, and take photos when the LED flashes blue once. Recorded content can be accessed by connecting the glasses to a computer via USB cable. Tikaway glasses have several potential uses including in industry, where technicians can access machine manuals through linked smartphones to quickly troubleshoot problems.
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Cameras That Dazzle, and Dismay - Samsung ST550(TL225)
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Cameras That Dazzle, and Dismay
Stuart Goldenberg
By DAVID POGUE
Published: October 14, 2009
There are celebrations when a war ends, but sometimes confusion, too. The sense of
purpose, the unifying morale lift, maybe even the economic boost, are over.
That was certainly the case during the Great Megapixel Wars of 1996-2007. During these
years, the world’s camera companies fought doggedly for our hearts and minds, using
megapixel count as a weapon. “Ours takes 6 megapixel photos!” “Ours takes 8!” And we
marched to their orders, buying a new camera every other year just to keep up.
Now that that war has ended (the megapixel race has pretty much stopped at around 12)
the camera companies find themselves flailing for new sales points. Cameras these days
have more bells and whistles than a marching band: image stabilizers, superlong zooms,
hi-def video, waterproof cases, face recognition, smile detection, even blink detection.
This month, though, some kind of line has been crossed. Two new cameras from Nikon
and Samsung don’t just tinker with the camera formula, they rewrite it. One adds a
second screen; the other adds a built-in projector.
Actually, Samsung’s DualView TL225 and TL220 cameras introduce two radical
elements: a screen on the front and a gesture-and-tilt vocabulary for controlling the
thing. (The TL225, priced at $350, has a 3.5-inch back screen, brushed-metal body and
2. HDMI jack for a hi-def TV; the TL220, $300, has a 3-inch screen, plastic body and no
HDMI.) What draws the most attention, of course, is that 1.5-inch front screen.
When the screen is turned off, it’s invisible. It vanishes completely into the camera’s
smoky-dark case. When you turn it on (by tapping that empty spot with your finger),
however, it’s capable of performing several ingenious stunts.
Samsung’s TL225 has screens on both back and front.
The obvious one is framing self-portraits. On ordinary cameras, that’s a matter of
guesswork, or of handing the camera to passing strangers and praying they won’t just
run away with it. On the DualView, you can see precisely how the shot is framed, how
your expression looks and whether you’ve got spinach in your teeth.
Actually, why not use it even when you’re not taking self-portraits? Shouldn’t everyone
have some say in what your pictures of them look like?
When you dial up Kid mode — one of the camera’s 13 canned sets of scene settings — the
screen does something else clever: it displays a crude Japanese-style cartoon animation.
(The camera comes with a clown animation; 20 more are available as free downloads.)
It’s supposed to capture the attention of younger subjects, so that they face the camera.
It works like a charm (except in bright sunlight, where it’s nearly bleached out). Even
older children are captivated, if only by the presence of a video screen on a pocket
camera. Close-range photos sometimes reveal the telltale off-axis look of a child who was
looking at a spot beside the lens, not into it, but it beats calling out, “Tyler! Hey Tyler!
Look here! Hey Tyler!” for the 14th time.
3. The little front screen can also display a countdown in self-timer mode, current flash or
macro settings, or a smiley face when you press the shutter, to cue your subjects when
it’s time to pretend to be happy.
The question is: do self-portraits and child shots occur frequently enough to justify the
higher price of this camera? (Rival touch-screen cameras cost $50 to $100 less.)
Before you answer, there’s more invention in the DualView than just the second screen.
The huge, bright touch screen works really well, but what’s new is how you can control
this camera, quickly and precisely, by tipping it and drawing on its screen.
For example, you draw a big X on a photo to delete it. You draw a circle, clockwise or
counterclockwise, to rotate it. In playback mode, you advance to the next picture either
by flicking your finger across the screen, iPhone style, or by giving the camera a little
shake.
Cooler yet, you can switch modes — to movie mode and back, for example — by twitching
the camera up, down or left while pressing a button with your thumb. It takes a couple of
minutes to master, but it’s a genuine advance in the evolution of gadget controls, and
wow, is it cool.
Not so cool: in their “reinvent the camera” zeal, Samsung’s engineers adopted a
nonstandard way to charge the battery (inside the camera, so you can’t charge a spare
while using the camera), a nonstandard, proprietary computer transfer cable, and a
decidedly nonstandard memory-card format (MicroSD, more common on cellphones).
Whassamatter, Samsung — the SD cards used by every other camera company on earth
not good enough for ya? The other radical new camera is Nikon’s CoolPix S1000pj
($430). On most cameras, to show off your photos, you can pass around the tiny screen
or connect a TV cable. This one, if you can believe it, has a microprojector built right into
its forehead.
Last year, microprojectors wowed a lot of people. They’re little iPod-size pocketable
gadgets that connect to phones, laptops or iPods to project stills and videos on any handy,
light-colored flat surface.
Get ready for the dawn of embedded microprojectors in cellphones — and cameras, like
this one. When you’re in playback mode, a dedicated button on the top edge of the Nikon
turns on a gasp-inducing projected image, which can be as large as 40 inches diagonal,
depending on your distance from the wall, ceiling or T-shirt.
Now, you’re not exactly going to get complaints from the neighbors; this thing pumps
out only 10 lumens of light (compared with 2,000 lumens or more for conference-room
4. laptop projectors). The projected image is only 640 by 480 pixels. The battery lasts for
only an hour with the projector on.
But you know what? Absolutely nobody cares. The image brightness and clarity are
perfectly adequate — especially in a dark room, on a white surface, and when the camera
is fairly close.
Everyone who sees this stunt is captivated by the possibilities. Whenever you want to
show off the pictures or videos on your camera, there’s no need to transfer them to a
computer or hunt for the TV cable; just aim the camera, set it on its little stand if you like,
and maybe whip out the included remote control.
You can take pictures on a camping trip, far from computers or TV sets, and conduct on-
the-spot slide shows. Take pictures at a party and immediately show them off. Load up a
memory card with PowerPoint slides and carry your sales pitch in your pocket. It’s
fantastic.
This miracle comes at a price, though. An equivalent camera without the projector costs
about half as much. Furthermore, while the Nikon isn’t nearly as big as it appears in
photos (it’s roughly the same size as most pocket cameras), it is just as homely.
Both of these cameras represent huge high-tech leaps, for sure. Both have mighty zooms
(5X or 4.6X), smile and blink detection, superb close-up modes (0.6 inches away),
excellent facial recognition and so on.
Unfortunately, neither of them takes particularly good pictures. That could be
considered a drawback in a camera.
As in most CoolPix and Samsung pocket cams, these models have tiny sensors, so blur is
a problem in low light or when your subjects are moving. Shutter lag is a huge problem,
so sports photography is nearly out of the question. (On the Samsung, the shutter
sometimes doesn’t snap until a full second after you’ve pressed the button.) The
Samsung’s shots also fall consistently short of crisp sharpness.
Still, there are an awful lot of goodies to distract you from the photo quality. Let’s hope
that the wow-inducing ingenuity on display here makes its way, eventually, to cameras
that take wow-inducing photos.
E-mail: pogue@nytimes.com