Digital cameras have some pluses and also some minuses. Digital cameras have allowed us to distribute and manipulate images easily, They have allowed practices such as Occupational Therapy be able to quick and easy access to images without having to get a film developed.
Digital photos unlike film photos are made up of pixels; lots of tiny squares which make up one image. This makes digital images non smooth and continuous like regular film photographs.
Digital images can be easily stored onto laptops, computers, Ipods, memory sticks, Dvd's external hard drives and much more. Images are easily manipulated with programs such as as photoshop.
There are ethical issues which can arise from capturing images on a digital device such as photos being taken of a person without their consent.
Digital cameras are now commonly used in occupational therapy practice to capture client progress and photos of equipment, interventions ect.
Flickr.com is a photo storage website. It allows users to join groups and share photos/ videos inside the groups. You can also have friends who you can share photos/videos with and have discussions. Snapfish is another website that works in a similar way to filckr.
Digital cameras have both digital and optical zoom. Optical zoom works just like a zoom lens on a film camera. Image quality stays high. Digital zoom crops the image to a smaller size, then enlarges the cropped portion to fill the frame again Image quality is significally lost.
Megapixel is the amount of pixels that go into an image. 1 million pixels= 1 megapexel.
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