| Below is a list of articles with the most recent ones listed first. |
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Digital Cameras - Part I by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Cameras |
| It's easy to understand the booming business that digital camera manufacturers are doing these days. The host of easy-to-use personal and business publishing applications, the dramatic expansion of the Web and its insatiable appetite for visual images, and the proliferation of inexpensive printers c... |
| Published: Wednesday 25 April, 2007 |
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Digital Cameras - Part II by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Cameras |
| 1998 saw CMOS sensors emerge as an alternative image capture technology to CCDs. The CMOS manufacturing processes are the same as those used to produce millions of processors and memory chips worldwide. As these are established high-yield techniques with an existing infrastructure already in place, ... |
| Published: Wednesday 25 April, 2007 |
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Digital Cameras - Part III by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Cameras |
| A colour LCD panel is a feature that is present on virtually all modern digital cameras. It acts as a mini GUI, allowing the user to adjust the full range of settings offered by the camera and is an invaluable aid to previewing and arranging photos without needing to connect to a PC to do so. Typica... |
| Published: Wednesday 25 April, 2007 |
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Digital Cameras - Part IV by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Cameras |
| In 1998, the Photographic Industry Association - comprising most of the world's digital camera manufacturers - came up with a set of standards called the Design Rule for Camera File System (DCF). This defined colour parameters for digital camera images which took into account the limited colour rang... |
| Published: Wednesday 25 April, 2007 |
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Digital Cameras - Part IX by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Cameras |
| In December of 2002, the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) started an initiative which had the goal of a global standard to enable direct printing from digital cameras on appropriately equipped photo printers, independent of the model or manufacturer of the camera or the printer. The stan... |
| Published: Wednesday 25 April, 2007 |
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Digital Cameras - Part V by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Cameras |
| Many first-generation digital cameras contained one or two megabytes of internal memory suitable for storing around 30 standard-quality images at a size of 640x480 pixels. Unfortunately, once the memory had been filled no more pictures could be taken until they'd been transferred to a PC and deleted... |
| Published: Wednesday 25 April, 2007 |
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Digital Cameras - Part VI by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Cameras |
| Some higher-end professional cameras use PCMCIA hard disk drives as their storage medium. Although they consume no power once images are recorded, and have much higher capacity than flash memory (a 170MB drive is capable of storing up to 3,200 images "standard" 640 by 480 images), the hard disk opti... |
| Published: Wednesday 25 April, 2007 |
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Digital Cameras - Part VII by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Cameras |
| Despite the trend towards removable storage, digital cameras still allow connection to a PC for the purpose of image downloading. Until the late 1990s the principal method of transfer was via a conventional RS-232 serial cable at a maximum speed of 115Kbit/s. However, since then USB connectivity has... |
| Published: Wednesday 25 April, 2007 |
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Digital Cameras - Part VIII by MDofPC |
Topic: Digital Cameras |
| In 2002 the prospect of truly affordable film-quality digital cameras was given a massive boost when - after five years of research and development - Foveon Corporation unveiled a digital camera imaging sensor which the company claimed was capable of obviating 35mm film. |
| Published: Wednesday 25 April, 2007 |
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