X-Box is Microsoft's first video game console. In 2001 Microsoft developed it. And already worldwide they have sold 20 million units. To compete with Sony's Playstation, Microsoft rebuilt the X-Box and came up with X-Box 360. Hers Experimental Design Laboratory Inc. of Japan and Astro Studios of USA developed the exterior of the system. This game can be played from Media Center PC, MP3 player, digital camera or any Microsoft® Windows® XP-based PC.
It is a very powerful machine. And it has an online version as well. The online version is called X-Box live. With X-Box 360 we can do a lot of activities. Apart from video games we can rip, stream, download any media including movies, music etc. There are two types of X-Box 360 available in the market: X-Box 360 and X-Box 360 Core System.
The X-Box pack also contains a HD AV cable, an Ethernet connectivity cable, a headset, a wireless controller, a media remote and a removable hard drive. In the X-box core system an AV cable and a wired controller are additional articles. Paul has been providing answers to lots of queries through his website on a wide variety of subjects ranging from satellite phones to acne. To learn more visit http://www.askaquery.com/Answers/qn507.html
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Monday, April 30, 2007
Easy Guide to Buy Digital Camcorders and DVD Camcorders
A camcorder is a portmanteau word made by combining 'Camera' and 'recorder'. A camcorder is a portable television camera and videocassette recorder. It is an electronic device for recording video images and audio onto a storage device. It contains both camera and recorder in one unit. The camcorders generally contain digital cameras. A camcorder having digital camera or digital technology is known as digital camcorder. A camcorder having dvd facility is dvd camcorder. A camcorder is powered with a camcorder battery.
Sony introduced the first camcorder in 1983, followed by Kodak in 1984. The first camcorders combined the video-camera with an existing full-size VHS/Betamax recorder. These camcorders were large devices that required a sturdy tripod or strong shoulders to stably support the camera's bulk. The majority of these were designed for right-handed operation, except a few that possessed ambidextrous ergonomics.
Sony introduced the first HandyCam camcorder in 1984. The HandyCam could be held and operated entirely within the palm of the operator's hand, made possible by the 8mm video format.
The lens, imager, and recorder are the three major components of a camcorder. The lens gathers and focuses light on the imager. The imager (usually a CCD (charge-coupled device) or CMOS sensor IC on modern camcorders; earlier examples often used vidicon tubes) converts incident light into an electrical (video) signal. Finally, the recorder encodes the video signal into a storable form. The optics and imager are commonly referred to as the camera section.
The recent times are witnessing a great revolution in the camcorders. The camcorders with ultra modern technology are in the market. The mainstream consumer market favors ease of use, portable cheap camcorders and discount camcorders.
There is a great number of websites offering bulks of info on camcorders, cheap camcorders and discount camcorders. There are numerous online sources offers camcorder articles & blogs, camcorder review, digital camcorder review, sony camcorder review, canon camcorder review, sharp camcorder review, kodak camcorder review etc. The guys planning to buy camcorder must go through these reviews and articles, before buying a camcorder.
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About Author: The author owns a website on digital camcorders http://www.123digitalcamcorder.com You can check their website for latest deals on buyers guide for a quick review on camcorders http://www.digitalcamcorderguide.info
Sony introduced the first camcorder in 1983, followed by Kodak in 1984. The first camcorders combined the video-camera with an existing full-size VHS/Betamax recorder. These camcorders were large devices that required a sturdy tripod or strong shoulders to stably support the camera's bulk. The majority of these were designed for right-handed operation, except a few that possessed ambidextrous ergonomics.
Sony introduced the first HandyCam camcorder in 1984. The HandyCam could be held and operated entirely within the palm of the operator's hand, made possible by the 8mm video format.
The lens, imager, and recorder are the three major components of a camcorder. The lens gathers and focuses light on the imager. The imager (usually a CCD (charge-coupled device) or CMOS sensor IC on modern camcorders; earlier examples often used vidicon tubes) converts incident light into an electrical (video) signal. Finally, the recorder encodes the video signal into a storable form. The optics and imager are commonly referred to as the camera section.
The recent times are witnessing a great revolution in the camcorders. The camcorders with ultra modern technology are in the market. The mainstream consumer market favors ease of use, portable cheap camcorders and discount camcorders.
There is a great number of websites offering bulks of info on camcorders, cheap camcorders and discount camcorders. There are numerous online sources offers camcorder articles & blogs, camcorder review, digital camcorder review, sony camcorder review, canon camcorder review, sharp camcorder review, kodak camcorder review etc. The guys planning to buy camcorder must go through these reviews and articles, before buying a camcorder.
About the Author
About Author: The author owns a website on digital camcorders http://www.123digitalcamcorder.com You can check their website for latest deals on buyers guide for a quick review on camcorders http://www.digitalcamcorderguide.info
Digital Photography: Using Windows XP
This information is Copyright January 2006 by Windy Dawn Marketing and Loring Windblad. References for this article include the author's personal knowledge and experience. Additional information references with first article. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text, including this header, intact and unchanged in all details.
The title of this article is actually Digital Photography: Using Windows XP (to manage your digital pictures). If you have read my previous articles, Digital Photography: The Basics and Digital Photography: Choosing Your Camera, you have a pretty good idea that all of a sudden one trip can really put a lot of megabytes onto your computer hard disk.
Just as an example here, if I shoot 20 still images (JPGs) I will be adding about 16-17 MB of pictures to my collection. If I shoot 1 minute of .AVI video clip that alone is about 14 MB of data. So 10 minutes of video runs about 145 MB. You have a 128 MB memory chip? Well, better go to 256 MB and a couple of them. If you're doing lots of video, get more. So 10 minutes of video and 30 pictures takes up 170 MB. It only takes about 6 of these sessions to put a whole gigabyte of pictures on your HD! You're gonna take a trip for 2 weeks? Someplace you've never been before? You had better take along about 5-6 or more extra 512 MB memory chips. You came home and you've got 3 gigabytes of pictures and video to sort and store and prepare for the web? And take selected pictures and make photo prints of them for your photo album? WOW! HELP! Well, that's what I'm here for.
Let's take a look at our old computers. They were 1.1 gHz AMD Duron CPUs with 2 each 60 GB HD's and Windows 2000...and we were running out of space. Both HD's were partitioned*. My sweetie and I have one computer each, twins of one another, and networked for file sharing, etc. Well, they got old (3 years, 4 now) and so 31 December a year ago we built new ones. These are 3200 AMD Athlon-64s with 1 gb of RAM, 2 each 160 gb of HD, Windows XP SP2 and most of the basic bells and whistles. Further, the first HD, with the O/S, is partitioned, but the second HD is not partitioned, giving us a single 160 GB "work space" to edit videos and movies and etc.
Partitioning your HD is not important to your digital photography and your digital or film camera. But it is important to how you handle and store and work with your digital images when you put them onto your computer. First, as a minimum, you should have at least two partitions. They would be C, D and E. Then you would have your second HD, un-partitioned, as F.
Your C partition would be about 15-20 GB and it would hold your installed O/S and all your installed operating programs - and nothing else! Your D partition would be about the same and it would hold all your email files. Your E partition would be the rest of your work, all the things you create and save, letters, pictures, designs, writing, etc. And your F would be un-partitioned to provide the maximum sized workspace you can have for manipulating your digital picture files, making movies, etc. It would also provide, if you wanted it, a backup of your C partition.
Example: You are hit by a virus, you cannot clean it as there is no cure out for it yet and it will destroy your computer the moment you boot your system. If you use any of your programs you will begin infecting other things. Your only solution is to format your C partition. If you only have one partition on your HD, this means you have now lost everything you had on your computer and must start over. If you have partitioned it as above you will only lose your installed programs and Windows. You can format it, copy the backup from your F drive and you are back in business - and no virus.
Remember in the previous articles that we went to http://www.santaclausca.com twice and checked for two different things about the video clips? Well, what you need to know about them is this (dealing with only the second one, the video CD). It is approximately 23 MB on the web - and on my HD. That's BIG you say? Yes....and no. Yes, it is pretty big. But no, its also actually pretty small. Lets take a look at just how it was created and how big - or small - it really is!
First, all versions of Windows came with a sound recorder; Windows XP is no different in that respect. But Windows XP SP2 also comes with a Windows Movie Maker. It makes movies for you in .WMV format - Windows Media Video. And it makes those movies from either video clips or still jpg clips or a combination of video and still images. Finally it will use either .AVI or .MPG video and probably just about any stills, including .JPG and .GIF all scrunched into one final video output.
But that's just the icing on the cake. It will also play the audio you had as part of your video clips as part of the final output and you can add in your own audio clips made in the Sound Recorder. You can also add in MP3 music clips and possibly even MIDI (MP2) audio clips, and make them a part of your .WMV presentation. You just have to be a little careful not to overlap your audio portions. Finally you can add in titling on your finished video production, especially helpful if you are making a slide presentation.
OK, back to my Santa video. I used two 1-minute video clips and a couple which were shorter. The 1-minute clips were 14+ mb each. The shorter ones were 2, 4 and 5 mb. And I used several stills at 500 kb each. Then I added a couple of audio .WAV clips at a couple of megabytes each! The total was about 45 megabytes and I was aghast! But, well, I did it, I liked it (finally), and so I saved it. I figured that Windows Movie Maker would create something larger than the composite parts - a very reasonable supposition, ordinarily! Much to my surprise, the resultant .WMV production came in at a slim, trim and svelte 23 MB! Voila! I was impressed. It also runs 3½ minutes of play time.
So what we're looking at here is a working file which has, just for this production, nearly 50 mb of files, and an additional 23 mb of final production - actually 3 copies. Close to 110 mb total in this one file! This is why I have a 160 gb HD that is un-partitioned. This is just my "working folder for this Santa video clip"; every piece of my work goes into its own individual folder.
On my HD I have a Digital Pictures folder and it holds almost all of my digital pictures. It will hold all of them as soon as I get them all arranged and sorted and filed properly. Right now that Digital Pictures folder holds 9.15 gb of digital files, audio, video and still. I have a second section for Music where I store all of my MP3 music and .WAV music files. It occupies 16.7 gb of music, but there are another 8 gb of mp3 music stored on CD and not on my HD. I also have another 4.07 gb of digital video in .VOB format, which is my digital 8 videos converted from digital 8 format to a usable Windows format. These are the four video presentations I produced for a third party and the represent only 2 ½ hours of video footage.
If we look at the Digital Pictures folder we find it has sub-folders for every trip we have made, for pictures I have converted from photographs to digital to use on the internet, from our backyard in bloom and in snow to fishing, fossil hunting to gold panning. And I have a Family folder which is subdivided to 22 different sub-folders Altogether my digital pictures folder contains 14,888 files and 277 sub-folders.
What I suggest for your digital picture storage is a similar system of filing. 1) Take if off your C partition. 2) Provide as many folders as you will need and label each appropriately so that you can find what you are looking for when you need it. 3) Add new folders as they are needed, with appropriate folder names. 4) Finally, and probably first, make sure that you correctly label each picture with a short name and date before you put it in its final file folder.
OK, you have your picture files all organized on your HD, you are ready to make movie presentations using your sound recorder and movie editor in Windows, and you even have an idea for a family web site to display all your pictures. Oooops! You just can't load 9 GB of pictures onto the internet. It would take you forever to upload them, it would cost you a fortune to host a web site with that much space used, and it would take visitors forever just to view a couple of pictures - even at modern ADSL speeds? So each picture you propose sending via email, and each picture you are going to use in your web site, needs to be processed and reduced. Pictures you send by email or upload to a web site should be no larger than 50 kb and shooting for 20-25 kb each is desirable. Even if you achieve a 25 kb average, if your web site holds 100 pictures that comes out to 2.5 mb. Just try sending 2.5 mb by email - it takes a little while to send and it takes a little while to receive and download, even by ADSL. And if you are on standard hotmail or yahoo mail your limit is 1 mb per message or thereabouts.
So your final step for preparing your files, jpg, that is, is to "reduce" them for web and email use. There are several programs out there, including some freeby programs, which will do this admirably.
Picassa is a free program from Yahoo which organizes your pictures on your computer and prepares them for email attachments. How well it prepares them for web use I don't know...I tend to do this myself so I know what and where everything is.
Adobe Photoshop is not a free program but it does come with a second internal program which is very useful. It's called Image Ready and with it I can process 20 pictures in about 20 minutes or less, including renaming them, color correcting them and reducing them from 800 kb to 20-45 kb and filing them back beside the original pictures.
Whatever name I use to identify the picture I simply add an "x" to it when I save it. This "x" tells me that I have reduced the image size and quality. If I also "crop" the picture I add "xy" to the end of the name. This tells me it has been color corrected, reduced and cropped. As an example, these labels would be something like:
SweetieBDay1-1-01-001.jpg 865 kb original in full resolution
SweetieBDay1-1-01-001x.jpg 34 kb for the web
SweetieBDay1-1-01-001xy.jpg 3.2 kb for email
About the Author
The title of this article is actually Digital Photography: Using Windows XP (to manage your digital pictures). If you have read my previous articles, Digital Photography: The Basics and Digital Photography: Choosing Your Camera, you have a pretty good idea that all of a sudden one trip can really put a lot of megabytes onto your computer hard disk.
Just as an example here, if I shoot 20 still images (JPGs) I will be adding about 16-17 MB of pictures to my collection. If I shoot 1 minute of .AVI video clip that alone is about 14 MB of data. So 10 minutes of video runs about 145 MB. You have a 128 MB memory chip? Well, better go to 256 MB and a couple of them. If you're doing lots of video, get more. So 10 minutes of video and 30 pictures takes up 170 MB. It only takes about 6 of these sessions to put a whole gigabyte of pictures on your HD! You're gonna take a trip for 2 weeks? Someplace you've never been before? You had better take along about 5-6 or more extra 512 MB memory chips. You came home and you've got 3 gigabytes of pictures and video to sort and store and prepare for the web? And take selected pictures and make photo prints of them for your photo album? WOW! HELP! Well, that's what I'm here for.
Let's take a look at our old computers. They were 1.1 gHz AMD Duron CPUs with 2 each 60 GB HD's and Windows 2000...and we were running out of space. Both HD's were partitioned*. My sweetie and I have one computer each, twins of one another, and networked for file sharing, etc. Well, they got old (3 years, 4 now) and so 31 December a year ago we built new ones. These are 3200 AMD Athlon-64s with 1 gb of RAM, 2 each 160 gb of HD, Windows XP SP2 and most of the basic bells and whistles. Further, the first HD, with the O/S, is partitioned, but the second HD is not partitioned, giving us a single 160 GB "work space" to edit videos and movies and etc.
Partitioning your HD is not important to your digital photography and your digital or film camera. But it is important to how you handle and store and work with your digital images when you put them onto your computer. First, as a minimum, you should have at least two partitions. They would be C, D and E. Then you would have your second HD, un-partitioned, as F.
Your C partition would be about 15-20 GB and it would hold your installed O/S and all your installed operating programs - and nothing else! Your D partition would be about the same and it would hold all your email files. Your E partition would be the rest of your work, all the things you create and save, letters, pictures, designs, writing, etc. And your F would be un-partitioned to provide the maximum sized workspace you can have for manipulating your digital picture files, making movies, etc. It would also provide, if you wanted it, a backup of your C partition.
Example: You are hit by a virus, you cannot clean it as there is no cure out for it yet and it will destroy your computer the moment you boot your system. If you use any of your programs you will begin infecting other things. Your only solution is to format your C partition. If you only have one partition on your HD, this means you have now lost everything you had on your computer and must start over. If you have partitioned it as above you will only lose your installed programs and Windows. You can format it, copy the backup from your F drive and you are back in business - and no virus.
Remember in the previous articles that we went to http://www.santaclausca.com twice and checked for two different things about the video clips? Well, what you need to know about them is this (dealing with only the second one, the video CD). It is approximately 23 MB on the web - and on my HD. That's BIG you say? Yes....and no. Yes, it is pretty big. But no, its also actually pretty small. Lets take a look at just how it was created and how big - or small - it really is!
First, all versions of Windows came with a sound recorder; Windows XP is no different in that respect. But Windows XP SP2 also comes with a Windows Movie Maker. It makes movies for you in .WMV format - Windows Media Video. And it makes those movies from either video clips or still jpg clips or a combination of video and still images. Finally it will use either .AVI or .MPG video and probably just about any stills, including .JPG and .GIF all scrunched into one final video output.
But that's just the icing on the cake. It will also play the audio you had as part of your video clips as part of the final output and you can add in your own audio clips made in the Sound Recorder. You can also add in MP3 music clips and possibly even MIDI (MP2) audio clips, and make them a part of your .WMV presentation. You just have to be a little careful not to overlap your audio portions. Finally you can add in titling on your finished video production, especially helpful if you are making a slide presentation.
OK, back to my Santa video. I used two 1-minute video clips and a couple which were shorter. The 1-minute clips were 14+ mb each. The shorter ones were 2, 4 and 5 mb. And I used several stills at 500 kb each. Then I added a couple of audio .WAV clips at a couple of megabytes each! The total was about 45 megabytes and I was aghast! But, well, I did it, I liked it (finally), and so I saved it. I figured that Windows Movie Maker would create something larger than the composite parts - a very reasonable supposition, ordinarily! Much to my surprise, the resultant .WMV production came in at a slim, trim and svelte 23 MB! Voila! I was impressed. It also runs 3½ minutes of play time.
So what we're looking at here is a working file which has, just for this production, nearly 50 mb of files, and an additional 23 mb of final production - actually 3 copies. Close to 110 mb total in this one file! This is why I have a 160 gb HD that is un-partitioned. This is just my "working folder for this Santa video clip"; every piece of my work goes into its own individual folder.
On my HD I have a Digital Pictures folder and it holds almost all of my digital pictures. It will hold all of them as soon as I get them all arranged and sorted and filed properly. Right now that Digital Pictures folder holds 9.15 gb of digital files, audio, video and still. I have a second section for Music where I store all of my MP3 music and .WAV music files. It occupies 16.7 gb of music, but there are another 8 gb of mp3 music stored on CD and not on my HD. I also have another 4.07 gb of digital video in .VOB format, which is my digital 8 videos converted from digital 8 format to a usable Windows format. These are the four video presentations I produced for a third party and the represent only 2 ½ hours of video footage.
If we look at the Digital Pictures folder we find it has sub-folders for every trip we have made, for pictures I have converted from photographs to digital to use on the internet, from our backyard in bloom and in snow to fishing, fossil hunting to gold panning. And I have a Family folder which is subdivided to 22 different sub-folders Altogether my digital pictures folder contains 14,888 files and 277 sub-folders.
What I suggest for your digital picture storage is a similar system of filing. 1) Take if off your C partition. 2) Provide as many folders as you will need and label each appropriately so that you can find what you are looking for when you need it. 3) Add new folders as they are needed, with appropriate folder names. 4) Finally, and probably first, make sure that you correctly label each picture with a short name and date before you put it in its final file folder.
OK, you have your picture files all organized on your HD, you are ready to make movie presentations using your sound recorder and movie editor in Windows, and you even have an idea for a family web site to display all your pictures. Oooops! You just can't load 9 GB of pictures onto the internet. It would take you forever to upload them, it would cost you a fortune to host a web site with that much space used, and it would take visitors forever just to view a couple of pictures - even at modern ADSL speeds? So each picture you propose sending via email, and each picture you are going to use in your web site, needs to be processed and reduced. Pictures you send by email or upload to a web site should be no larger than 50 kb and shooting for 20-25 kb each is desirable. Even if you achieve a 25 kb average, if your web site holds 100 pictures that comes out to 2.5 mb. Just try sending 2.5 mb by email - it takes a little while to send and it takes a little while to receive and download, even by ADSL. And if you are on standard hotmail or yahoo mail your limit is 1 mb per message or thereabouts.
So your final step for preparing your files, jpg, that is, is to "reduce" them for web and email use. There are several programs out there, including some freeby programs, which will do this admirably.
Picassa is a free program from Yahoo which organizes your pictures on your computer and prepares them for email attachments. How well it prepares them for web use I don't know...I tend to do this myself so I know what and where everything is.
Adobe Photoshop is not a free program but it does come with a second internal program which is very useful. It's called Image Ready and with it I can process 20 pictures in about 20 minutes or less, including renaming them, color correcting them and reducing them from 800 kb to 20-45 kb and filing them back beside the original pictures.
Whatever name I use to identify the picture I simply add an "x" to it when I save it. This "x" tells me that I have reduced the image size and quality. If I also "crop" the picture I add "xy" to the end of the name. This tells me it has been color corrected, reduced and cropped. As an example, these labels would be something like:
SweetieBDay1-1-01-001.jpg 865 kb original in full resolution
SweetieBDay1-1-01-001x.jpg 34 kb for the web
SweetieBDay1-1-01-001xy.jpg 3.2 kb for email
About the Author
Loring Windblad worked as a freelance photographer for more than 20 years. He and his wife presently own and regularly use 1 VHS camcorder, 2 digital 8 camcorders and two digital still cameras, as well as a standard 35mm SLR. His latest business endeavor is at: http://www.santaclausca.com.
Wide Angle Digital Camera
Zoom digital camera lenses can be found in short or long zoom proportions according to the manufactured version of a particular camera or the specific preferences of a consumer. There are also several other types of lenses available on today's market including wide angle digital camera lenses. Wide angle lenses can be a bit trickier to purchase and maneuver for the amateur photographer because of the proportionality that must be maintained for good photos. Stretching and distorting are common problems with improper use of wide angled lenses which makes it necessary to understand how to purchase and use this piece of photographic equipment.
Lenses help to focus a prospective photo to the liking of the photographer and many consumers use various types of lenses to enhance their picture taking abilities. Scenes can be enlarged, resized or filtered with different types of lenses which make many consumers want to own as many variations as possible. Many cameras come with attached zoom digital camera lens that are made to adjust automatically to a particular photo setting. For many people, this is the best option because they are not proficient in photographic manipulation to be able to focus without help from an automatic source. Other cameras offer detachable lens options that can be purchased extra such as wide angle digital camera lens or telephoto lens that offer a huge array of photo options for the more ambitious or professional photographer.
Any typical lens that is purchased with a camera will generally do the job that most consumers want done in respect to photo quality. Whether the lens is attached or is a detachable option, most produce good quality photographs for indoor and outdoor scenery or portraits. Much of what is perceived as good or poor quality is based on the photography ability of the consumer rather than the lens itself. However, there are lens options such as wide angle digital camera lenses that can add extra focus and quality to any photo for those who know to use them. This type of lens will include a broader area of the scene and even though the focal point may be smaller, the surroundings will be more visible. Many photographers appreciate the added depth that this lens brings to photographs and opt to always have one on hand no matter where they are.
Another type of lens that is extremely popular with professional or avid photographers is a telephoto lens. Telephoto lenses are used to focus in on a specified target and draw the image in closer to allow a clear photo of the subject or target. Many professional photographers use this sort of equipment rather than the typical zoom digital camera lens because of the enhanced detail that can be gleaned from scenes and subjects that otherwise would be missed in the 'big picture' of things. Telephoto lenses are used to capture a drop of nectar from a hummingbirds bill that otherwise would never be seen by any other method. "I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works." (Psalm 9:1) Of course, high speed photo functions are important as well in this endeavor, but small points of interest can more easily be captured through telephoto capabilities.
A very popular type of lens available that provides a broad range of capabilities, ease of use and quality output is the zoom lens. A zoom lens offers a way to be camera-ready for just about anything that any typical consumer will have need of. These types of lenses provide the best of both telephoto and wide angle digital camera lens options because they can be adjusted according to the moments requirement. This lens will remain in a normal photo position until needed for wide or zoom angles. The lens can be pulled or turned into place and will then produce photos with more detail and scenery involved. They are called short or long zoom according to the use that they are put to. Short zoom is when wide angle is used and the long zoom digital camera functions allow a telephoto lens to be used.
This type of lens is basically the best of all worlds when it comes to lenses and many consumers are satisfied with the features and quality that is offered. There are many types of cameras available today that provide prepackaged zoom digital camera lens and add on lens options. Point and shoot, professional and prosumer cameras are the basic types available to consumers and can cost anywhere from a couple hundred dollars to several thousand dollars for a professional model. The growing popularity of prosumer cameras is propelling this version to the forefront of consumer demand because of higher resolution and creative focusing capabilities. Prosumers costs a bit more than the small pocket sized photographic equipment, but it leaps forward in quality, usability and value.
For more information: http://www.christianet.com/digitalequipment
http://www.christianet.com/digitalequipment/wideangledigitalcamera.htm
Lenses help to focus a prospective photo to the liking of the photographer and many consumers use various types of lenses to enhance their picture taking abilities. Scenes can be enlarged, resized or filtered with different types of lenses which make many consumers want to own as many variations as possible. Many cameras come with attached zoom digital camera lens that are made to adjust automatically to a particular photo setting. For many people, this is the best option because they are not proficient in photographic manipulation to be able to focus without help from an automatic source. Other cameras offer detachable lens options that can be purchased extra such as wide angle digital camera lens or telephoto lens that offer a huge array of photo options for the more ambitious or professional photographer.
Any typical lens that is purchased with a camera will generally do the job that most consumers want done in respect to photo quality. Whether the lens is attached or is a detachable option, most produce good quality photographs for indoor and outdoor scenery or portraits. Much of what is perceived as good or poor quality is based on the photography ability of the consumer rather than the lens itself. However, there are lens options such as wide angle digital camera lenses that can add extra focus and quality to any photo for those who know to use them. This type of lens will include a broader area of the scene and even though the focal point may be smaller, the surroundings will be more visible. Many photographers appreciate the added depth that this lens brings to photographs and opt to always have one on hand no matter where they are.
Another type of lens that is extremely popular with professional or avid photographers is a telephoto lens. Telephoto lenses are used to focus in on a specified target and draw the image in closer to allow a clear photo of the subject or target. Many professional photographers use this sort of equipment rather than the typical zoom digital camera lens because of the enhanced detail that can be gleaned from scenes and subjects that otherwise would be missed in the 'big picture' of things. Telephoto lenses are used to capture a drop of nectar from a hummingbirds bill that otherwise would never be seen by any other method. "I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works." (Psalm 9:1) Of course, high speed photo functions are important as well in this endeavor, but small points of interest can more easily be captured through telephoto capabilities.
A very popular type of lens available that provides a broad range of capabilities, ease of use and quality output is the zoom lens. A zoom lens offers a way to be camera-ready for just about anything that any typical consumer will have need of. These types of lenses provide the best of both telephoto and wide angle digital camera lens options because they can be adjusted according to the moments requirement. This lens will remain in a normal photo position until needed for wide or zoom angles. The lens can be pulled or turned into place and will then produce photos with more detail and scenery involved. They are called short or long zoom according to the use that they are put to. Short zoom is when wide angle is used and the long zoom digital camera functions allow a telephoto lens to be used.
This type of lens is basically the best of all worlds when it comes to lenses and many consumers are satisfied with the features and quality that is offered. There are many types of cameras available today that provide prepackaged zoom digital camera lens and add on lens options. Point and shoot, professional and prosumer cameras are the basic types available to consumers and can cost anywhere from a couple hundred dollars to several thousand dollars for a professional model. The growing popularity of prosumer cameras is propelling this version to the forefront of consumer demand because of higher resolution and creative focusing capabilities. Prosumers costs a bit more than the small pocket sized photographic equipment, but it leaps forward in quality, usability and value.
For more information: http://www.christianet.com/digitalequipment
http://www.christianet.com/digitalequipment/wideangledigitalcamera.htm
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