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Complete Guide To Digital Cameras

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CHAPTER 10 Accessories

MEMORY CARDS
CompactFlash
Can you move CompactFlash cards from one camera to another?
SmartMedia
Flashpath adapter

OTHER DISK OPTIONS
Iomega Clik! Drive
MGVision Digital Wallet

POWER
Batteries
What's the difference between the tab and button batteries?

SOURCES
Batteries
AC Adapter

LIGHTING
Flash
Additional lighting
Tripods

TRIPOD MANUFACTURERS
PANORAMIC TRIPOD HEAD MANUFACTURERS
LENSES
FILTERS
Other connection methods

CHAPTER 11 Other Uses

CAPTURING SLIDES USING DIGITAL CAMERAS
DIGITIZING BOOKS, NEWSPAPER AND PHOTOGRAPHS
CAPTURING 3D OBJECTS
UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY
Interview
ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 12 Interviews

CHAPTER 13 File Formats

WHY DIFFERENT FILES?
COMMON FORMATS
Application-Specific
New Formats

FILE COMPRESSION: LOSSY VERSUS LOSSLESS
Lossless compression
Lossy compression

WHICH COMPRESSION FORMAT IS BEST?
Why not save in TIFF LZW?
Doesn't compression throw away pixels?

WHY ARE THE FILE SIZES DIFFERENT?
LONG-TERM ARCHIVING
Comparing file sizes
CROSS-PLATFORM ISSUES
RGB versus CMYK versus 8-bit versus LAB
TABLE OF FILE EXTENSIONS
FILE FORMATS
BMP
CRW
EPS
FlashPix
GIF
JPEG
What's JFIF and EXIF?
KDC
MIX
PDD PhotoDeluxe
PDF Adobe Acrobat
PCD Photo CD
PICT
PNG
PSD Photoshop file format
TIFF (Tag Image File Format)
Wavelet

PLACING IMAGES BACK IN YOUR CAMERA
STORING FILES

CHAPTER 14 Saving and Archiving

BACK UP AND ARCHIVE
SOFTWARE
STORAGE OPTIONS
Floppy disk
Tape
Removable storage
CD-R
CD-RW
DVD

 

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