Topics Covered
- How digital media works
- Setting the digital ISO
- Setting capture resolution
- How to adjust the color balance
- Reviewing camera functions
- Zooming in on an image during playback
- Transferring images to your computer
- Adjusting the size of an image
- Guidelines for optimal sharpening
- How and why to compress an image's file size
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| Figure 1 |
In this lesson, we used the Olympus C-3040 digital camera (3.3 Megapixel),
a 16MB SmartMedia card (included with the camera) and rechargeable Ni-MH batteries. The camera comes with a set of disposable
lithium batteries, but we recommend you invest in at least two sets of rechargeable batteries for the long run (figure 1).
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| Figure 2 |
The SmartMedia card is used to store and transfer images to a computer, and
can be used over and over again. No more film and processing costs! The maximum card size to date is 128 MB, but that could
increase in the near future. Although they are quite small, each one can hold a large number of high-resolution images on
it (figure 2).
Different cameras require SmartMedia cards to be inserted a particular way,
so refer to the manual to make sure it is oriented correctly (figure 3).
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| Figure 3 |
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