75% Of People Buy The Wrong Digital Camera - Don't Let It Happen To You
When I teach a new class learning digital photography, over 75% of the students turn up with the camera the salesman suggested.
Guess what? They soon find out that its wrong one for them. This can be a very expensive mistake. So the big questions are what is the right one for me and how do I know which is best for me.
One of the first things that you want to know about the camera that the salesman is trying to sell you is as follows -
How long does the camera take to turn on and be ready to take the shot? In the consumer market this can range between 1 to 5 seconds most being towards the 5 seconds mark.
How long does the camera take to focus on the subject? (not to take the picture) most cameras take between 1 to 3 seconds most at around the 1 second mark.
How long does the camera take to actually take the photo after you have pushed the shutter button completely? Again, most cameras take between 1to 3 seconds.
Now you can see to take a photo can take up to 5 seconds just to turn on and up to another 3 seconds to focus in and the up to another 3 seconds just to actually take the photo.
In a cheaper camera, but not necessarily cheaper it can be up to 9 seconds to take a photo. You may say "yes but I will leave my camera on" ok that's fine, but you may still have a lag time of up to 6 seconds just to take a photo.
Just imagine how annoying it will be now that you have purchased your new digital camera costing you around $400 - $500 to find that you just can't catch your child blowing out the candles because your new camera at the critical time of blowing the candles out took 1 second to focus and a further 2 seconds to take the photo.
What was the result?
A child sitting in front of a cake with black smouldering candles.
Can you set the white balance on your camera?
Just what is the white balance?
The white balance is simply this; if you were to look at a piece of white paper outside in the morning it looks white to you and I, that's because our eyes adjust to the blue light of morning but our camera sees the paper as light blue.
At noon the paper will look white to the camera and at dusk with the warm sun it will appear yellow.
So we can set our cameras white balance to reflect the light at the time.
About 60% of digital cameras don't have this adjustment, you must buy one that can be set manually, not just one that has an "auto white balance" as they are not as good as they advertise.
Does your camera have different exposure modes?
Exposure modes are simply where does the camera take a light reading from? The cheaper cameras just do an all over reading which can be very limiting to say the least. A good camera will have a "spot", "centre weighted" and "matrix" metering system, which allows you to take great photos in any light situation.
When buying a digital camera, buy it for the fact that it's a camera not a video camera as well. One student showed me all the features her camera had and that's why it was more expensive ? the only thing that it didn't do well was take still pictures!
You can get so much out of your new digital camera you just have to put some time in for learning how to use it properly and how to take better pictures ? remember no one will ever want to look at a poor quality photo twice!
If you want to take really great pictures that will be in your family for years put in a little effort with your new digital camera. .
New Site, The Passing of Time, Shows What It's Really Like to Get Older
(ContentDesk via ContentDesk Direct) December 9, 2005 -- Giovanni Acerbi, a 37-year-old Italian and creator of a new Web site called "The Passing of Time," has been changing a lot during his life. In this new Web site Acerbi wants to follow his life course since birth and give other people the same opportunity, free of charge."As years go by, our faces change showing the marks of time. Let's accept it and let everybody see how we have been changing," says Acerbi.The idea is very simple: the only thing you have to do is to choose some of your photos and to create your own album in this site; if you want you can add a comment for each photograph so that every image can tell something more of your personal history.It won't be a surprise if a site like The Passing of Time will be visited by people of all kinds and ages who are ready to draw the world's attention to themselves in order to show their evolution. A face can tell many things and...
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Knowing how an ink cartridge work can save you money
A printer ink cartridge usually contains a print head and circuitry. At the bottom of an inkjet cartridge are nozzles or what is commonly referred to as "jets". There can be from 50 to several hundred of these nozzles. Each of these nozzles is smaller in diameter than a human hair. They are connected to a resistor that heats (or allows to cool) the printer ink within the ink cartridge.
When ink is heated it forms a bubble. When it cools, the bubble shoots dots of ink through these nozzles onto your printer paper. Because this heating/cooling process is so rapid, your inkjet cartridge can produce thousands of ink droplets per second.The heaters and nozzles of an ink cartridge will continue to work, even when your printer ink runs out. Testing suggests that the heating unit of an average inkjet cartridge will continue to work for as many as three to five refills. When your ink cartridge runs out of ink, you have a couple of options.
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KickStartNews Highly Recommends FinePrint 5 and pdfFactory 2 for Enhanced Printing Controls and Low-Cost PDF Creation
(ContentDesk via MobilityNewswire) February 5, 2004--KickStartNews has published a review of FinePrint Software's FinePrint 5 and pdfFactory 2 and concludes that both are "a must-buy for anyone who is looking to save paper when printing, creating and editing PDF files and combining documents from different sources."
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Using Direct Mail Promotion to Build On-Line Traffic
There are many effective on-line promotion techniques. Everyone?s usingthem. In fact, they are being used so much some are becoming less effective.It?s getting more difficult to break through all the on-line advertisingclutter and build your business.The solution?Direct mail advertising. Direct mail combines the targeting of on-linemarketing with the longevity of off-line marketing. Your mailing list can betargeted to your prospect?s demographics, geographics and interests.
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Knowing how an ink cartridge work can save you money
A printer ink cartridge usually contains a print head and circuitry. At the bottom of an inkjet cartridge are nozzles or what is commonly referred to as "jets". There can be from 50 to several hundred of these nozzles. Each of these nozzles is smaller in diameter than a human hair. They are connected to a resistor that heats (or allows to cool) the printer ink within the ink cartridge.
When ink is heated it forms a bubble. When it cools, the bubble shoots dots of ink through these nozzles onto your printer paper. Because this heating/cooling process is so rapid, your inkjet cartridge can produce thousands of ink droplets per second.The heaters and nozzles of an ink cartridge will continue to work, even when your printer ink runs out. Testing suggests that the heating unit of an average inkjet cartridge will continue to work for as many as three to five refills. When your ink cartridge runs out of ink, you have a couple of options.
First, you can purchase a printer ink refill...
Knowing how an ink cartridge work can save you money
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