You want to buy a new digital camera but you wonder what all these abbreviations and strange terms are and what do they mean? Here are a few which I have tried to explain in a simple way. AE Lock. This means Auto Exposure Lock and means that you can point to your subject matter, [...]
This is the time of the year that thoughts turn to gifts and a popular gift is a digital camera. The choice of good cameras is enormous so first thoughts are which out of all these cameras should I buy, and how much will it cost. It is difficult to decide because of the range [...]
I noticed some confusion in my family about the subject matter so I thought the following article might clarify matters a bit. The first time you use a new memory card with your digital camera you should always format it in the camera, or it may not record your images correctly. Why should you format [...]
Winter time is an opportunity to use your camera in lots of different ways. We should start by covering a few points to consider when using your camera in winter . Number 1 is dress for the weather! There is nothing worse than being cold, wet and miserable. Take a warm drink? Secondly, you need [...]
Gorillapod was designed by Joby and released in 2006 as an alternative flexible tripod for cameras. Joby develops innovative accessories for the photography and personal communications markets. Quote from Joby: “Available in three sizes and 40 countries, the Gorillapod features prehensile legs that bend and rotate 360 degrees to secure a digital camera to virtually [...]
Digital cameras today are being made with more and more megapixels and the general feeling is that more means better – and more expensive. Megapixels and resolution is a tricky subject and quite difficult to absorb for the average camera user. As a rough rule of thumb more megapixels means greater detail or resolution which [...]
Today I thought I would mention another great add-on that is of interest to lovers of images in any shape or form. PicLens is a web browser plugin made by Cooliris that provides interactive full-screen slideshows of online images. The plugin is available for Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer. At present, the software is compatible [...]
What exactly is Picasa? Picasa is free, downloadable software from Google which allows you to organise your digital photos, edit them, email or share them, and it is very easy to use. You can find Picasa by typing “google picasa” in your search box and, if Google search is used, Picasa will be the first [...]
I mentioned a family wedding in a previous post and as a follow-on to that my brother, a very good photographer, told me that he was creating a wedding album using the photographs he had taken at the wedding. I managed to get a peek at the preview of the album and was quite impressed [...]
