Is digital photography expensive?Written by Jakob Jelling
By Jakob Jelling http://www.snapjunky.comBeing such a fascinating device as digital camera, this technological masterpiece is of course a precious and priced possession. And acquiring it also means that one time achievement feeling. Thus a person must also be very careful and at time quite a little knowledgeable in order to make a good purchase and not lose a good bargain in maze of soaring prices and mist of exaggerated cost myths. This discussion is again focused to pierce that mist and unravel that myth to reveal truths and facts regarding actual and economic cost of a digital camera! As per recent marketing trends, conventions has it that there are only two types of digital camera users, firstly average people who only craves to push button, and secondly professional photographers, people who looks for good control over digital camera and its well carved features and are willing to pay virtually any price. Thus with this idea in back of entire process of sell and purchase, diverse levels of resolution for such digital cameras are available that are real culprits in defining price range of cameras. United with such singular features digital cameras come in a spectral variety of price range for an even varying customer range that are willing to pay anything from £30 to £1,500. The cost of an average digital camera probably lies in region of £260, however in spite of this a person must be aware of what functionality or resolution that he or she is looking for and ultimate paying for, so that purchase does not result in too much in exchange of too little of whatever must be desired from digital camera. A person must self analyze reasons for purchasing digital camera before venturing into an expensive rendezvous. He or she must be aware of what real purpose is, is it only snapping for casual reasons or a serious plan to produce super quality photographs to be printed as art or for professional purposes.
| | Digicam file formatsWritten by Jakob Jelling
By Jakob Jelling http://www.snapjunky.comLooking at digital camera, a person can visualize it as a combination of a camera along with a miniature computer system that stores images as files or sets of bits, rather than a chemically treated film. Thus it comes to be a fact that there are certain file formats in which these images of photographs captured by camera are stored. And again, this is subject of discussion for understanding digital camera properly. In this effort this discussion reveals intricate but overlying to provide a brief overview to readers regarding file formats of digital cameras. Basically, strictly considering facts, there are three file formats used by digital cameras to create images of photographs taken by them. These are JPEG, TIFF and RAW. These are names of formats but like their strange names their identity remains in dark if these are not conversed in a little detail. The most vastly and commonly used file format for digital cameras is JPEG file format. It is time and again lone available file format on primary and some intermediate standard digital cameras. Many sophisticated digital cameras allows users to opt for between JPEG, TIFF and RAW. However professional photographers usually prefer to shoot RAW. Yet discretion remains with human preference only. It is a fact that acronym JPEG stands for "Joint Photographic Expert Group" after group that developed this file type. To make things easier it must be clarified that JPEG is a compression technique that can considerably trim down file size of a photograph and other unremitting tone images. Almost all digital cameras have a number of JPEG compression levels and quality settings to select from. The users can make use of them as per discretion and photograph taken. Thus jpeg images do not consume much space on a memory cards. Another specialty of this digital camera file format is that JPEGs store camera settings and scene information. All these advantages make this file format so popular and diversely accepted.
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