First Time with Your Digital Camera
Kodak, the company well-known for taking cameras out of the hands of professionals and put them into the hands of everyday users, is in financial trouble. Why? People today — everyday people — are moving toward digital cameras, leaving film-based cameras to gather dust in the closet. As the largest manufacturer of film-based cameras, and photographic film, Kodak finds itself losing loads of money.
However, digital cameras won’t save money if people don’t know how to use them. Below are pointers on how to use your digital camera, and take advantage of your Mac, too.
You need a computer
While there are some cameras which allow you to view your photos on a TV, in practice a digital camera is pretty worthless without a computer. The best computer to have is a Macintosh with a USB port, which covers everything Apple has made since the iMac.
It will also help if the camera you purchased comes with Macintosh-compatible photo editing software. Mac OS X 10.1 automatically comes with software capable of downloading pictures directly from some cameras which means you may not need to load a thing.
Learn the basics
Yes, you will probably need to read the manual. Be warned however that some of the cameras don’t come with a printed manual; you’ll have to read an Acrobat file from the CD-ROM that came with the camera. Take your time and play with the controls and learn how to use them. Make sure you know how to load batteries, plug it into your computer, and turn it on and off.
Also understand which buttons you don’t want to push. (I recently watched someone wonder aloud what one button did, so they pushed it — and watched their rechargeable battery fall into the Pacific Ocean.)
Generally speaking, the better the camera, the harder it is to operate the camera. Inexpensive digital cameras rarely support more than “point and shoot:” you point it, you push the button, it takes a picture. The camera will try to auto-focus the image and adjust the exposure according to available light.
More expensive digital cameras allow you to manually adjust focus, focal length, lighting, and countless other settings to help you turn a good picture into a really bad picture — if you don’t read the manual.
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