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Travel Advice - Cameras for vacation, what you need to know
Digital Cameras - If you don't have one, read this article.
Digital cameras are the most popular camera type due to the ease of
displaying these pictures on PC’s and sending images to friends via
email. In addition, most new digital cameras can take video, as
well as still, making them very popular.
Digital cameras have the advantage that you can compose a picture,
take it, and immediately view the picture on the small preview screen
that is part of the camera. If the picture does not meet your standards,
you can erase it from the memory card and take another picture.
Digital cameras store images on memory cards that capture a picture
in a numeric format that represents the image characteristics as
captured by the cameras image sensor. Most modern sensors are
quite good and the differences between cameras are in image resolution
and imaging features.
- Memory Cards are available in different capacities and formats
ranging from Megabytes to Gigabytes. Memory cards come in a variety
of formats and you must purchase the format used by your camera to
store images.
- Cards with more memory cost more than cards with lower
capacity, but store more images images.
- The number of images that can be stored on a card is a function
of the image size and resolution that you choose when setting your
camera to capture images and the storage capacity of the card you
are using
- Software (usually supplied with your camera) is used to transfer
the images from the card to a computer or another storage device.
Once the images have been transferred, other images can be stored on
the card. In other words, memory cards are reusable, unlike
film.
High-resolution images gulp space on memory cards and you should
decided the desired size and resolution of your photographs before you
leave on the trip.
- Most cameras display the number of images that can be fit on the
memory card being used based on the choices that you make related to
image size and resolution.
- Make sure that you understand this relationship and take
enough memory cards to capture the number of images that you
might take during the vacation.
- The images remain on the card until transferred to a
computer or otherwise erased.
- If you travel with a portable PC, you can transfer the
images to the PC and clear the memory card.
- If not, you might be able to find an Internet Café and
Transfer the images for storage at one of the many Internet
sites specializing in digital photo services (e.g.
www.shutterfly.com or
www.ofoto.com ).
- Some Internet Cafes have the ability to write your images
onto a CD.
- Alternatively, you can simplify the issue by carrying an
extra memory card to two.
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Batteries
Be sure to carry an extra battery for you digital camera since it
depends on electric power for all camera functions. If you have a
charger, take it with, but remember to take a
power adapter, unless the charger is engineered to work with
multiple power sources.
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