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Photography Training - First Time with Your Digital Camera

by Dan Feildman



Kodak, the company well-known for taking cameras out of the hands of professionals and put them into the hands of everyday users, is in financial trouble. Why? People today -- everyday people -- are moving toward digital cameras, leaving film-based cameras to gather dust in the closet. As the largest manufacturer of film-based cameras, and photographic film, Kodak finds itself losing loads of money.

But a digital camera won't save you any money if you don't know how to use it. So here are some pointers on how to use your camera, and take advantage of your Mac, too.

You need a computer

While there are some cameras which allow you to view your photos on a TV, in practice a digital camera is pretty worthless without a computer. The best computer to have is a Macintosh with a USB port, which covers everything Apple has made since the iMac.

It will also help if the camera you purchased comes with Macintosh-compatible photo editing software. Mac OS X 10.1 automatically comes with software capable of downloading pictures directly from some cameras which means you may not need to load a thing.

Learn the basics

Yes, you need to read the manual. Some of the cameras don't even come with a printed manual; you'll have to read an Acrobat file from the CD-ROM that came with the camera. Concentrate on finding all the controls and learning how to use them. Make sure you know how to load batteries, plug it into your computer, and turn it on and off.

You will also want to be aware of buttons you don't want to push. (I recently watched someone wonder aloud what one button did, so they pushed it -- and watched their rechargeable battery fall into the Pacific Ocean.)

Typically speaking, the better the camera, the harder it will be to operate. Inexpensive digital cameras rarely support more than "point and shoot" technology. You point the camera, push the button, it takes a picture. The camera will try to auto-focus the image and adjust the exposure according to available light.

The more costly digital cameras allow you to manually adjust focus, focal length, lighting, and many other settings which will help you turn a good picture into a really bad picture -- if you don't read the manual first.



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Title: Photography Training - First Time with Your Digital Camera
Author: Dan Feildman
Email: andrewedgington1@gmail.com
Keywords: art,photography,entertainment,hobbies,digital cameras
Word Count: 386
Category: Hobbies
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