When you’re shopping for a point and shoot digital camera, you want to make a checklist of the major features that will help you decide which camera to buy. In this article we discuss the zoom lens and how it is important to choose the right zoom lens features when selecting your camera.
A zoom lens lets you change the focal length of the camera. This means simply that the lens lets you choose how much the camera will magnify the image by zooming in and out of a scene when you are composing your shot. Generally, the higher the zoom magnification, the better.
You will commonly see cameras sold with magnification of 2x, 3x and even 5x on some better point and shoot cameras. Make sure that the zoom refers to optical zoom. The optical zoom refers to movement of the elements in the lens to perform the magnification. This type of zoom will ensure your images are in sharp focus throughout the camera’s entire zoom range. You should also check to see that the optics are made of glass and not plastic. A glass lens will give you better images without distortion. This is what the best 35mm camera lenses – Nikon, Leica, Canon – have and it’s what you should also demand in your point and shoot camera.
There is another type of zoom called digital zoom. Digital zoom does not use optics to magnify an image, rather it simply takes a group of pixels in the image and processes them to make them look bigger. The result is the image will be blurry and grainy. This is not what you are looking for.
When comparing cameras, ignore the digital zoom and look only at the optical zoom since that will tell you the real capabilities of the camera.
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As with most consumer electronic items these days, digital cameras are battery hogs. They are responsible for powering a number of items within the camera that explains the battery drain including the LCD display, photo storage to the memory card, the flash and the motor that controls the zoom lens.
Because camera batteries do so much, it is no wonder that they don’t last very long. However with a little knowledge, you can follow some simple steps to help your camera batteries last longer and to require fewer charges or replacements.
The first thing you should do is to turn off the LCD display if possible and look through the optical viewfinder instead. The LCD is one of the biggest battery hogs in your camera and you can dramatically extend the battery life if you don’t use it.
Next, resist the urge to preview your pictures. Again, powering up the LCD to review the photos you took will also drain a lot of your battery life. If you have to take a look, keep the viewing time as short as possible.
If you don’t need to use the flash, disable it. There may be cases when your camera would naturally flash but it does no good. For example if you are at a sporting event, your flash from a hundred feet away will do no good so disable id and you will be able to take more photos.
Although it may seem counterintuitive, if you are taking a lot of pictures, don’t turn off the camera after each shot. It would seem that you are conserving the battery power by turning it off but in reality every time you turn the camera off and on, the mechanism to power up the camera, extend the lens and so on eats up a little of the battery power.
If your camera uses AA batteries, consider getting rechargeable batteries instead of the typical alkaline. Although the rechargeable batteries cost more up front, the cost of a few sets of alkaline batteries can quickly exceed the rechargeables, not to mention the extra waste of throwing the old batteries into the landfill when they run out of juice.
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When you are taking photos with a digital camera, be it a point and shoot or a 35mm SLR, the image you capture is stored to a memory card using a particular file format. Most digital cameras offer you the ability to store files in JPEG, TIFF or RAW format.
By far the most commonly used format is JPEG. The reason it is so common is that it offers a good balance between image size and image quality. That means simply that it produces a good quality image and takes up minimal space. However the JPEG format is a lossy format. This means that it uses a mathematical formula to reduce the file size and as a consequence, some of the image quality will also be reduced.
Unlike JPEG, TIFF and RAW formats are non-lossy, meaning the entire image is saved with no loss in image quality. The downside of course is that the images are much larger. This means you can shoot and store fewer images on the same size memory card. For example, on the Nikon Coolpix 5700, a 5MB image will consume 14.5 MB as a TIFF, 1.5 MB as a JPEG and 7.8 MB as a RAW image.
A TIFF is a completely identical rendering of the image that was captured and can be viewed on most computers with the proper software. RAW images are similar to shooting a digital negative. This means that some additional post processing will be needed to view the image. A tool such as Photoshop will be necessary along with the proper plugins to handle the viewing and processing of a RAW image once it is transferred to your computer. RAW images are great since it allows an experienced user to make changes to the photograph in the computer. Camera settings such as white balance, contrast, saturation levels, sharpening and so on are all possible to modify with a RAW image. Modification to these settings is not as easy with a JPEG or TIFF image.
Some cameras offer a compromise. For example my Nikon D80 will allow me to set it to capture both a JPEG and a RAW image each time I take a picture. That way I have the quick and dirty JPEG to enjoy and a RAW image to manipulate later. This feature is rare on most point and shoot cameras.
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A printer can consistently meet the printing jobs you need when it has the right printer cartridges, whether inkjet or laser toner. Buying either printer cartridges need to be in line with the type of printer you have. Laser printers, which makes use of toners, can print thousands of pages before needing replacement. If you need rapidly printed massive amounts of copy, as with business and schools, you need laser printers and toner cartridges to support them. But if you don’t need rapid document printing en masse, then an inkjet printer, along with inkjet cartridges, is what you need. We can help you find the printer cartridge you need. At Tonik, we have brand name cartridges as well as generic ones. Still, just in case you need a cartridge not in our stock, we will try to find it for you using our distribution network.
And Wonderful Idea and a Book
A number of years ago I was interviewed as an early adopter of Photoshop, as part of a book on Adobe Photoshop. When the new book came out, the writer sent me a copy. The book was very beautiful and I phoned her up to congratulate her. I then asked her what her next project was.
She replied that she didn’t know yet what her next project would be. I immediately suggested that she write a book on me… and she replied that it was a wonderful idea! A year later my book on Photoshop (Adobe Masterclass: Photoshop Compositing with John Lund) came out.
Would You Model For Me?
A few days ago I had just boarded a plan back from New York when a very attractive young woman sat down next to me. After a very brief conversation I asked her if she would model for me (I always cringe when I ask that…). She agreed and two days later we were shooting. The shoot turned out great and I got great model released stock photo images, as good or better than I had imagined when I first asked her if she would model for me.
Photo Shoots of Operations and Physical Therapy
Three times I have asked surgeons if I can either have my operation photographed, or, if I can use their facilities to stage a stock photo shoot. Amazingly enough, that has resulted in two actual still photo shoots of operations on me (including a video in which a mesh is installed beneath my abdominal muscles) and an extensive shoot in a physical therapy facility virtually for free (OK, the operation did cost me $10,000.00).
Tony Stone and a Career in Stock Photography
Way back before the beginning of time I once asked Tony Stone if he would loan me enough money to buy a powerful computer so that I could create cool stock photos for him (his company, Tony Stone Images, was the company purchased by Jonathan Klein and Mark Getty and turned into Getty Images). Amazingly enough Tony said yes and my career in stock photography took off. Of course, the answer isn’t always yes. I would like to point out I first asked the owner of another stock agency for the money to buy the computer, but he declined. Silly man!
The Most Important Question
In yet another ancient and audacious act of asking, I approached the owner of a photo lab (remember those?) if he would loan me $5,000.00 to purchase a Beta copy of a program called Live Picture.
Back then Live Picture had layers and a liquefy filter as well as “history” and Photoshop did not. He loaned me the money, I bought Live Picture and for quite a few years was able to work far more efficiently for certain tasks than I could with Photoshop. In fact, the very first job I did with Live Picture that I could not do with Photoshop netted me a not-too-paltry $11,000.00 profit!
Of course, Live Picture lost the battle to Photoshop and there are few people left who even remember it. Oh well….
Perhaps the most important question of all, though, is one to ask your self. That question is: Why not?
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