Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Agnieszka Piekarska and Łukasz Trzciałkowski

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski History Digital Photography

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski - Photography was invented in 19th century student at Stanford University invented a videodisk camera - disadvatages of traditional photography Digital Photography History

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography History Disadvatages of traditional photography: - film photography needs too much time; - limited access to laboratories; - you have to process all your photos and file them all together because they are all on one roll of film; - photos must be processed before you can view them; - image quality can be poor if you use fast films or do not take care in how you take pictures; - necessity of scanning photos before computer processing;

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski chronicle of the digital cameras One of the first digital cameras !!! SONY ProMavica MVC "MAVICA" - Magnetic Video Camera Digital Photography History

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski DYCAM MODEL 1 (Logitech FotoMan) 1990 The world's first completely digital consumer camera. The camera was attached to a PC to transfer images. chronicle of the digital cameras History Digital Photography

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski APPLE QUICK TAKE The first mass-market color digital camera. Digital Photography History chronicle of the digital cameras

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski OLYMPUS DELTIS VC The world's first digital camera with built-in transmission capabilities Color LCD viewfinder let you preview photos on location Digital Photography History chronicle of the digital cameras

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski RICOH RDC The first digital camera to offer both still and moving image and sound recording/reproduction Color LCD monitor provided a live viewfinder image Digital Photography History chronicle of the digital cameras

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski HITACHI MP-EG1, MP-EG1A, MP-EG World's first digital camera which could output personal moving pictures to a personal computer in the MPEG format. Digital Photography History chronicle of the digital cameras

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Building of Digital Camera

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Building of Digital Camera Front Flash Lens Viewer Self-timer diode

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Building of Digital Camera Back Viewer Power switch Preview button Menu buttons LCD Viewer

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Building of Digital Camera Specification Flash lamp - is a special lamp which illuminate places and things when we took a picture. Viewer – we can see a display frame of taking picture when we look in viewer. Self timer diode – it blink when camera is set with self timer. (Self timer afford to put camera in some place and get self-photo) Lens – it allows to zoom in and zoom out objects in photo without changing distance of it. Lens consist of lens group and lens barrel. LCD Viewer – digital screen. It is used to preview photos (by pressing Preview button) and to set the best view of photo when we took it. Menu buttons – they are used to move in menu or to scroll photos in preview. Power switch – when we switch it the lens will slide in and slide out. LCD Screen is turning on and camera is ready to took some photos.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Building of Digital Camera Digital Camera is powered by small rechargable batery, and pictures are stored on memory card, which is built-in or is removable. Every card has different storage capacity like 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB or even 512MB. To take one picture in 1600x1200 resolution we need about 1MB of memory, if resolution is smaller then picture waight less. e.g. to keep 32 photos on 16MB MEMORY CARD we need to set resolution in our camera like 1024x768 if resolution is set 640x480 this amount is growing to 80 photos. So we can see that if quality is small then we can do keep more photos, we need to chose… good look or amount…

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography How does it work?

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography How does it work? To make good picture we need to have good camera and good light, if objects which we are going to pohotograph is not illuminate enough, then picture will be in poor quality. When we have good light then we can start taking photos. So how does it realy works ? Let see… The light focused in lens is falling on a CCD (Changed-Coupled Device) Matrix which consist of milion light-sensitive cells. These cells electrify in different way depending on range of visible light.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography How does it work? Here we can see how looks CCD MATRIX… This is removable Memory Card to Olympus Camera…

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography How does it work? OLYMPUS Li-ion 12V Battery Canon Flash

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Features of digital photographs

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Features of digital photographs pixels

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Features of digital photographs compression "image quality" (High, Medium, Low) How Much Compression? The more the image is compressed, the more information is lost !!!

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Features of digital photographs resolution Resolution - number of pixels (or dots) displayed per inch (ppi or dpi). The photo on the left was shot at a higher-resolution setting than the one on the right.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Features of digital photographs format of images Most digital cameras store images in one of three formats: JPEG TIFF CCD RAW.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Features of digital photographs format of images JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) pronounced "jay-peg" describe the JFIF file format (JPEG File Interchange Format) JPEG images have two distinctive features: uses a lossy compression scheme; supports 24-bit color.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Features of digital photographs format of images TIFF (Tag Image File Format) pronounced "tiff" developed to save images created by scanners, frame grabbers, and photo editing programs; a popular format for desktop publishing applications; TIFF files support up to 24-bit colors.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Features of digital photographs format of images CCD RAW (.CRW ) smaller file size written by the camera; raw, unprocessed data; raw data can be processed into a final image on a powerful desktop computer.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Transfer images to Personal Computer

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Transfer images to PC To transfer images to PC we need to use USB cable connection, or flash memory…

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Transfer images to PC LPT and USB socket Dock station Memory Card READER

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Transfer images to PC

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Transfer images to PC We also need program which can store and arganize our galeries. It is usually included on CD with drivers to USB Cable. Transfer is fast and after succesful copy photos to disk all photos are erased from memory card.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images What can I do with digital images ? Resizing Cropping Sharpening Rotating Changing Brightness and Contrast Color Balance and Saturation Red-eye Correction Using Filters

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images Resizing 200 x 133 pixels 100 x 67 pixels

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images Cropping The original image has too much dark space around the center of interest. Cropping, cuts out the dark areas, leaving just the interesting part of the image.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images Sharpening An unsharpened image of a subflower blossom. Sharpened image.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images Rotating The horizon line in front of the mountains is slightly tilted as is the tall cactus in the foreground. The rotation command has been used to level the image.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images Color Balance and Saturation The original image has a gray cast to it. By adjusting color balance, the image is given a more surrealistic look.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images Using Filters This photograph of a mission in Arizona has been filtered to make it look like a watercolor painting.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images Photo-editing software

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images photo editing software Adobe Photoshop PhotoGenetics new approach to improving your images

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images photo editing software PhotoGenetics The PhotoGenetics screen always shows you the currently corrected original image (left) and a variation (right). When you score the variation, its attributes are applied to the original image.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images photo editing software Before PhotoGenetics After PhotoGenetics PhotoGenetics

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images photo editing software Picture Window developed specifically for photographers, amateur and professional. tools are extremely powerful easy to use !!!

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images photo editing software Pain Shop Pro 7.0

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images photo editing software Photo Impact 3.02

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Editing digital images photo editing software MGI PhotoSuite II SE

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Printing digital images

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Printing digital images Types of Printers Snapshot printers Consumer desktop printers High quality printers

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Conclusion Advantages & Disadvantages Future

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Advantages & Disadvantages + We can preview photo in any time we want without using special laboratories + We can use computer to correct some scratches in our photos + We can make many fotos, watch them and erase for free + We can send photos via imediately after we took it. + If we have large storage capacity memory card we can make many photos without changing a film + If its necessary we can repeat our photography -Digital Cameras are more expensive than traditional stuff (memory card, camera, bateries) -Durability of ink-jet printout is lower than traditional photos -Resolution of digital camera is still lower than traditional 35mm films.

Agnieszka Piekarska & Łukasz Trzciałkowski Digital Photography Future If we look in near future we can predict that digital photography dominate traditional ways of making photos. Cameras and stuff prices will be decrease, and all these gear will be cheaper. Probably someone invent that kind of photo storage which will be more durable than CDs and normal paper. Cameras will be also smaller and quality of pictures will be better Typical cameras will be used by our grandparents and parents but new generation do not expire: What is traditional photography…

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