Why use digital cameras

As the Net increasingly becomes a regular part of our life and we find ourselves spending more and more time on the Net, it may be communicating with friends and family far away or shopping or selling on the Net in places like e-bay, the digital camera plays a very important role – whether you are sharing your photos with friends and family or you are a professional photographer, artist, web designer, civil contractor, real estate agent, or a seller on e-bay. The old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” holds good and that is where the digital camera comes in. And a good picture will make all the difference! If the picture gives you a clear view of what the seller is selling it becomes easier for the buyer to make up his mind about whether he wants to buy the item at all.

A digital camera is very much like the conventional film camera but the main difference is that it saves the photos as digital data on a memory card instead of images on film. The memory card is a storage device which you can remove from your digital camera and replace with a second one if you are on a long holiday. To retrieve the images stored on the memory card of your digital camera, you can connect the digital camera to the computer or if you have a card reader in your computer, you can put the memory card into it. Then you can view and edit the pictures (change the contrast, brightness, resize them using software like Photoshop) on your monitor screen and print them if you have a printer or send them to a photo studio or lab. You can also download the photos to your computer, e-mail them to your family and friends, upload them to your website, write them to CD, etc. The options are endless… But when you compare digital pictures to film photographs, the latter have resolution that you might say is infinite whereas digital photos are restricted by how much memory you have in your camera, the resolution of the mechanism for digitizing in the camera and lastly, the resolution of the camera used to print the pictures.

Digital cameras provide you with astonishing inventive control.

• You click a photo, view it, if not satisfied, discard it immediately and click again and again till you are satisfied. You can utilize the LCD screen to make check that you are getting the desirable image. No need of wasting money on film, developing the film and then printing the photos and then when you find that they aren’t suitable, start all over again incurring more expense.
• Once downloaded to your computer you can edit them yourself using suitable software like Photoshop – change the color, contrast, crop them and put in other special effects. Next you can do a whole lot of things like printing, emailing, writing to CD, etc. You can put them up on a website or blog or some other sites which let you share your photos with the general public or only family and friends as you choose. It also works as a backup in case your hard disk crashes and you lose all your pictures. Or you could back them up on CDs or DVDs.
• You do not have to wait for your entire film to be finished, then processed and printed to finally see your pictures. Nor do you have to pay all the charges for these processes.
• You can connect your digital camera to your TV and view a slide show.
• Also the majority of digital cameras today allow you to make short videos complete with sound.