Jan 22, 2009

Parts of digital camera you should know

A partly disassembled Panasonic Lumix digital ...Image via Wikipedia

I assume that you have already a digital camera on your hand or else you already taken some picture by it. But sometime it a little bit confusing learning how the part of the digital camera works and how can use it for your own purpose. That why I try to give you some explain about the digital camera parts, and here they are:

  1. The Lens; A rounded piece of glass or plastic that has function of collecting light and focusing it on the sensor to capture the image.
  2. The CCD or CMOS Sensor; the electronic sensor that has the function to translate the light into a digital signal. This sensor can contain 'dot' images between 1 million or less to 24 million pixels (24 MP) and up, depend on the size of the sensor which is usually from 25 mm2 up to 1977 mm2.
  3. LCD (Liquid Crystal Display); is a small screen on a digital camera for viewing photos as they being taken or playback it after they have being taken. You have to be careful about this camera's part because it fragile, when it's broke you can't view anything and your digital camera is useless.
  4. Mode Button; the mode button is for switching the model of your photo than you want to take and it adjusted the mode setting by itself. It depend on its brand, the button should has an images showed panoramic mode, night mode etc. for example: if you want to shoot a picture at low lighting room you should switch the mode to the night mode (sometime it has crescent image).
  5. Viewfinder; the optical window that the user can sees exactly what the camera lens see or see the picture being taken.
  6. The Flash; (It sound like a super hero huh :P). Built in electronic flash, usually on the top of the camera, that use when taking picture in low light environment. On some digital cameras the flash usually adds on with flash sensor which is can measure the light and help the camera decided when to use the flash.
  7. Memory card slot; a tiny container where the memory card is stored.

I hope you already know the part of your own digital camera, I am sure you are not confused anymore about how your gadget works. Now Just shoot a smile and cheers… Have Fun.

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Jan 21, 2008

Things to consider before buy digital camera for the first time

Fujifilm FinePix S9000Image via Wikipedia

Almost every month, digital company released new digital camera product. That is making the digital camera types grow up fast in past few years. For the costumer side this is a good thing, because the costumer has a lot of choices. But for you, the first time buyers, the choices sometime make you confused because of the variety type and features of the camera you want to buy. If you feel a little bit dizzy decided which one to buy, you should sizzling the type of digital camera you want to buy, by questioning yourself with these questions.


  • How much is your budget?
    No matter what your needs and wants are for the device, your financial resource will play a huge part in dictating the type of digital camera you will buy. For example: If your budget under $200, you cannot buy digital SLR camera because the price is beyond your budget.




  • What is your purpose having digital camera?
    If just want to make documentation your family daily live, you should buy pocket digital camera that easy to use and has automatic feature. You don't have to have knowledge about lighting, focusing, zooming etc because the compact digital camera has it all, in push of one button.

After having those questions answered, now you have to add a few checklists about the features that you want to embed on your gadget. And here they are:

  1. Resolution. It determines by the pixel that it has. The more pixels there are the good picture resolution that the camera produce. Usually the more pixels that it has, the more expensive is the price, but the more quality photo that it produced.
  2. Lens zoom. How far do you want to take the picture? It depends of the optical and the digital zoom that it has. Minimal 5x optical zoom it good enough to take as far as 50 meters object.
  3. Digital memory. There are two types of digital memory that should have on your gadget. Built in memory and external memory (it should have memory card slot; SSD card, micro SD, SD card etc. How many photo that you can storage on is depend how large is your memory card.
  4. Friendly interface menu. The entire digital camera has an interface menu for the features use. Before decided to buy look up the menu first if you feel the menu is easy to understand then the gadget is yours.
  5. Battery. You should consider how long is the battery can support the camera when it's on and it should be rechargeable. The Li-on battery is good enough to support the camera when you it use.
Those are the minimum item that you should consider before you buy digital camera, you can add some other item to checklist such as; the special features that camera has (every brand has its own special feature as their pre-eminence features). I hope you now can figure out what is your digital camera type that you want to buy. Check out digital camera product review in my next post. See ya!!


 

 

 

 

 

 


   


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Jul 19, 2007

It's all about digital camera

Welcome to a new blog that reviewed almost about anything that related to digital cameras. You may find useful review in this blog in the area of : digital camera, pocket digital camera, accessories and camera bag and more subjects that related to digital products and technology.
The digital technology is the future technology because almost everything in this world will digitalized from home equipment to sport equipment. Understanding how the digital technology work will help you to know the benefit of the daily digital gadget which you use. It helps you guided when you attend to purchase some gadget from the web store, which only display the image of the products and additional feature that the gadget has. When you has a little bit knowledge about the digital technology you will not confused when reading gadget’s feature or the embed technology that it has.
In this blog you will also find newly digital products lunch, Things to considered before you buy some digital products, digital product feature term of use and feature glossary of the product, and also digital products review and compare (I’m trying to give you an objective opinion about the products), products ranking and rating based on the products price and so many more.
I hope you enjoy updating your digital technology knowledge by reading every article that I post. See you in the next post, thank you