“A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature” Some of the pluses and minuses that digital camera technology holds in relation to more traditional film based cameras are as follows:
Digital cameras: enable you to check photos when you take the (are able to delete them if you do not like the photo), hold photos in memory card, easy to transfer onto a laptop and digital cameras are seen as a cheaper option.
Film cameras: enable us to more storage, normally bulky in size, better quality pictures, have more features and are more durable.
Ways digital cameras can be stored, transferred and manipulated using other communication technology are cell phones (also the new iphones), web cameras (found on your laptop), general hand held cameras and security cameras.
Ethical issues that would arise when these digital communications are used are having informed consent of taking images of an individual. Telling the individual the pure purpose and reason why their photo has been taking and who is going to see it.
Some ways that digital images can be used/ or being being used in Occupational Therapy practice are for house modifications. For example taking photos of your client’s front entrance for building modifications. Taking photos can save you time and help with justification in writing reports for funding.
Flickr is a website that enables us to upload photos to share with other people joined up to flick. This can allow us to communicate and explore the world with photos that other people have uploaded.
Another website similar to flickr is http://www.fotki.com/. Fotki is a thriving online community of photo fans who share their work online. Fotki offers a low-cost and easy way to share your photos - and offers a printing service too.
The difference between digital view and optical view is as follows:
Optical zoom: image quality stays high (throughout the zoom range) and it works like a zoom lens on a camera film.
Digital zoom: crops images into a smaller size and then can enlagen the cropped picture. This would mean that there will be a loss of quality and the picture is not as clear.
The word pixel meaning the computer logo “dot”. These little dots store colour and information. Depending on how their number per square will determine the quality of the picture. The more pixels per square inch is better than having a less number of pixels per inch.
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