Your Digital Photography Guide Awaits

Digital photography, it’s just better than film photography. For most people, the advantages of digital cameras are huge, and with all the advancements of technology, you can get the same quality pictures with digital cameras that you got with film, but with much more convenience. There are some key differences and other aspects of digital photography that you need to keep in mind, so you might want to seek out a digital photography guide to help you make the transition and take full advantage of everything digital photography offers.

A digital photography guide can get you up to speed with all the settings on your camera and what to do with your pictures in terms of saving and archiving them. You also have the choice between three different types of digital cameras. The most common type is a point and shoot camera, which is what you probably think of when you think of digital cameras. This is a pretty basic form of camera with a basic lens, zoom and features. Another option is a fixed lens camera. A more detailed digital photography guide can explain the differences in greater detail, but the basic difference is that fixed lens cameras have more powerful zooms. The third choice is a Single-lens Reflex (SLR) camera. Again, a more thorough digital photography guide, like the one offered by Video Professor, can explain these cameras in more detail, but the biggest advantage of these cameras are that they allow you to change lenses and they have a much quicker shutter speed. Manipulation of shutter speed is one aspect most missed by people with basic digital cameras who all experience the delay between when they press the button and when the camera actually takes the picture.

For a detailed explanation of pixels, a major factor to consider, take a look at an excerpt taken from Bob Atkins’ digital photography guide on photo.net:

A pixel is a contraction if the term PIcture ELement. Digital images are made up of small squares, just like a tile mosaic on your kitchen or bathroom wall. Though a digital photograph looks smooth and continuous just like a regular photograph, it’s actually composed of millions of tiny squares. One of the main ways that manufacturers categorize their digital cameras is in terms of pixel count. What this is is the number of individual pixels that go into making each image. Today this number varies between 1 million (1 Megapixel) to around 14 million (14 Megapixels). A million pixels is abbreviated to MP, so a 1MP camera has 1 million pixels and a 3MP camera has 3 million pixels. Currently most popular consumer digital cameras have between 2MP and 5MP. A 3MP camera can make excellent 4″x6″ prints and very good 5″x7″ prints. If you intend to make lots of 8″x10″ prints, then perhaps a 4MP or 5MP camera would be a better choice. Sometimes two numbers are given, total pixels and effective pixels.

For a very thorough explanation of how to use your digital camera, you can work with Video Professor’s digital photography guide (by John W Scherer) available as a CD or online tutorial.