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Digital Camera Memory Card

January 23rd, 2009

Digital Camera Memory Card –

Oh No, I Have No Place To Store My Pictures!

Executive Summary about Digital Camera Memory Card by Mike Singh

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canon digital camera memory card

The most common form of such memory is a memory card. Each memory card has a fixed capacity and can store a certain number of pixels. The camera’s memory is considered its key component, as it works for a temporary receptacle of photographs that are taken from a camera.

When the camera is first purchased, it comes with extremely low capacity memory cards, so right away one or two larger capacity cards need to be purchased. Some photographers suggest one or two 256 megabyte compact cards if the camera is a 3-5 megapixel compact digital camera. To shoot such pictures, photographers need to use memory cards of 1 GB capacity or more.

The memory cards for the cameras are most certainly no different, so always do a backup or two on other cards during the shoot. Depending on the type of digital camera desired and its number of pictures to be stored, the digital camera memory can be available in many different shapes and configurations – memory cards are entirely dependent on the requirements of the digital camera.

For example, a compact flash type 1 digital camera memory needs to be used for a camera using compact flash type 1. Most of the memory cards come in sizes 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB and 1GB capacity.

To be on the safer side, one should buy one 256 MB or two 128MB memory cards.

Choosing The Right Memory Card For Your Digital Camera

Executive Summary about Digital Camera Memory Card by Victor Epand

They made MemPlug for Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Compact Flash, and other formats. Second, both Compact Flash and Secure Digital, these are the most common and available formats right now.

I also noticed that Palm is running a $50 trade in offer as well for buying a new Palm.

Most flash cards that come in new digital cameras have such small memories. In order to save your frustration, order the SanDisk Compact flash 256 mb with the digital camera. Brand names and card specifics do matter somewhat.

I use compact flash, and at times the images can get corrupted or the card “non-readable”. Both Scan Disk and Laxar provide recovery software that can correct most of these issues when purchasing there higher level cards.

Through a USB port, a 1g memory card takes about 10-15 min to offload at this (80x) speed. It also supports the IBM micro drive, but I would stay with the SanDisk ultra II which is rated perhaps the fastest compact flash card available.

I use and prefer compact flash memory cards as they are lots less expensive than SD memory. Megapixels are a measure more of the initial image capture file size.

Check out my other guide on Digital Camera Megapixel or Megapixels Digital Camera


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Digital SLR Camera Lens

January 20th, 2009

Knowing Which Digital SLR Camera Lens is Right for You?

Executive Summary about Digital SLR Camera Lens by Scott Karcich

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canon digital slr camera lens

When shopping for a Digital SLR Camera people often overlook or skimp on the camera’s lenses.

Focal Length. Lenses can be classified into subgroups like prime, macro, wide angle, normal, telephoto, and zoom lenses.

Prime Lenses:

Prime lenses are fixed focal length lenses like a 50mm 1.4f lens. Traditionally prime lenses are sharper and faster then zoom lenses.

Macro Lenses:

Examples of macro lenses are 50mm and 100mm macros.

Wide-angle Lenses:

Wide-angle lenses are your broad stroke brushes; these types of lenses have short focal lengths. With high quality wide angles lenses like Canon L series lenses address this convergence issue well. Examples of wide-angle lenses are 15MM, 17mm, 24mm and 28mm lenses.

Normal Lenses:

If you buy just one lens try and buy the fastest normal lenses you can like a 50mm 1.4f lenses. Some examples of normal lenses are 35mm; 50mm, 65mm and some consider a 80mm a normal lens.

Telephoto Lenses:

Lenses with long focal lengths 100mm and higher are called telephoto lenses.

Zoom Lenses:

In my bag I carry a 17mm to 35mm my wide-angle broad brush, 24mm to 70mm my medium brush, and a 80mm to 200mm my short brush. Zoom lenses can give you flexibility and versatility all in one lenses.

You Can Afford A New Lens For Your DSLR Camera

Executive Summary about Digital SLR Camera Lens by Charlie Chalk

You’ve bought your Canon Digital Rebel XT, or your Nikon D80 and it’s come with a nice kit lens.

Aside from Nikon and Canon’s own excellent range of lenses an equally high quality but crucially less expensive group are those from the third party manufacturers.

As both Canon and Nikon have a huge back catalogue of theirs and third party manufacturers lenses from the 35mm Film SLR days that STILL FIT the DSLR cameras of today YOU have a massive selection of second hand lenses to choose from.

Take no notice of the new range of ’specially manufactured for Digital SLR cameras’ lenses that Nikon, Canon and the other manufacturers produce and go to the older film SLR sections.

Camera lenses, especially those that are a step up from the entry level ones, are built to last. So before you loose interest in your new toy because the Digital Rebels kit lens just isn’t cutting it, or your Nikon D80’s kit lens doesn’t give you a better picture than your old point and shoot take a look round the second hand stores, the auction sites or the classifieds and see if you can pick up a bargain piece of glass!

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SLR Camera Lens

January 19th, 2009

SLR Camera Lens Buying Guide

Executive Summary about SLR Camera Lens by Brian Auer

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nikon slr camera lens

Determine Your Budget. Determine What Type of Lens You Want. The main categories of lenses are: fish-eye, super-wide, wide, standard, telephoto, super-telephoto, and macro (there are other specialty lenses too). Most of those categories can also be split into prime and zoom lenses. I narrowed my search down to super-wide zooms, super-telephoto zooms, and prime macros.

Super-Wide: Less than 20mm focal length.

Wide: 20-30mm focal length.

Standard: 30-50mm focal length.

Telephoto: 50-200mm focal length.

Super-Telephoto: Greater than 200mm focal length.

Prime: Fixed focal length.

Zoom: Variable focal length.

Go to your favorite online lens source and create a wishlist for each type of lens you are thinking about. I found 9 super-wides, 8 super-telephotos, and 4 macros– but I included primes and zooms.

Prioritize Your Options. Typically, the more expensive lenses are also the better quality lenses (aside from price differences of around $100). Pick Your Flavor. I had 3 categories to decide between, and after my research I had one lens from each category. I chose to get two lenses instead of one!

When you’re picking out lenses, there’s no right or wrong choice.

SLR Cameras – What Is A Single Lens Reflex?

Executive Summary about SLR Camera Lens by Tom Bonner

Since nearly all SLRs accept interchangeable lenses, it would appear they should be known as multiple lens reflex (MLR) cameras.

Early cameras were similar to the view cameras used today. With a roll of film in the camera, the photographer could fire off numerous images without reloading.

Rangefinder cameras appear to keep things in focus

The lower-end, consumer roll-film cameras generally used an inexpensive “fixed-focus” lens, so a simple viewfinder was sufficient.

Twin Lens Reflex cameras offer another solution

While the rangefinder type cameras worked well, the camera industry is always evolving. A second method of allowing the photographer to focus and compose appeared in the “Twin-Lens Reflex” cameras. The film winds past the lower lens, while the photographer can focus through the upper lens. The twin-lens cameras were fairly bulky, so designers added a mirror and ground glass to the top of the camera, hence the term “reflex.

SLRs take cameras another step forward

In a camera, the lower mirror is placed at a 45 degree angle directly behind the lens. Once the instant return mirror was perfected, photographers could once again design their images by looking through the lens. Unlike the twin lens reflex, this new breed of camera needed only one lens to focus and shoot with Single-Lens Reflex Cameras.

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