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Basics > Understanding Digital
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PHOTORECOVERY can restore your lost pictures
Connected Photographer Magazine - February 2008
Do you ever get that sick sensation in your gut? You know, the one that accompanies the realization that you've just accidently deleted some really important files? It's twice as bad when those files happen to be your priceless digital photos. In this important review, Jorge Sosa tells us whether PHOTORECOVERY can help you ease the gut ache.
Caring for your thumb drive (and other flash memory)
Connected Photographer Magazine - July 2007
These days everyone has one or even two. They are known as a thumb drives, data travelers, flash drives and more. One thing is sure, they are almost the next best discovery to sliced bread. This helpful article will help you care for and extend the life of your thumb drive. By the way, since thumb drives are basically flash memory with a USB port, many of the suggestions here also apply to caring for your camera's flash memory modules.
Viewing RAW images in the Windows Explorer
Connected Photographer Magazine - July 2006
Most Windows users are familiar with the Windows XP Explorer, the file navigator that forms the basis of the Windows desktop interface. If you're a photographer who likes to take pictures in the RAW, you also know that the Windows Explorer thumbnail view can't render RAW images. Fortunately, there's a new little "PowerToy" that will update your Windows Explorer and make those thumbnails visible. It's free and this helpful article tells you how to get it.
Some quick shopping tips when buying your first digital camera
Connected Photographer Magazine - March 2006
There's two parts to the problem of buying a camera, of course. What camera to buy? And, where to buy it? It's the second question that we're exploring today. In this article, we'll give you a few simple tips that could make the difference between having a camera you love and a camera you wish you hadn't bought.
Understanding the parts of your camera
Connected Photographer Magazine - February 2006
Here at Connected Photographer, one of the most common questions we're asked is what digital camera to buy. Before you buy your first digital camera, it's best if you really understand the elements of a digital camera and then the factors that go into your choosing one. In this article, we discuss are the various components that make up a digital camera.
Bit depth in JPEG images
Connected Photographer Magazine - December 2005
A few weeks ago, we responded to a question about bit depth. A reader wrote in with a far more comprehensive reply, which we're publishing here.
A RAW deal: Using the RAW image format
Connected Photographer Magazine - May 2005
If you own a mid to high-end digital camera, or pretty much any digital SLR, you can shoot in RAW format. RAW formats capture the raw data off of your digital camera's sensor and preserve it in a file for you to manipulate outside of the camera. Author John Roling gives us a lesson in RAW format, its benefits, shortcomings, and why it's the ideal shooting format.
Choosing an entry-level camera
Connected Photographer Magazine - October 2004
Over the past months, we've been getting in a ton of letters from readers. Frankly, we've just been too lazy to dig through them all and turn them into our standard Letters to the Editor column. However, this week, I've been busy enough on other topics that I haven't gotten around to writing my usual column and a good letter will do just the trick to get me out of my article's due blues. This one's about what camera to choose.
Safeguard your precious photos
Connected Photographer Magazine - January 2004
Make sure you backup your precious photos. This helpful tutorial will show you how.
Megapixels and cropping
Connected Photographer Magazine - November 2003
No discussion of digital cameras (or any camera) can really be complete without talking about cropping. In this helpful article, David Gewirtz shows you how to plan for cropping in your digital camera purchase.
Understanding how image compression works
Connected Photographer Magazine - November 2003
In this issue, we're going to look at some important concepts of image compression that you'll need to know in order to understand how to capture and save images at the best quality.
Megapixels and digital storage media
Connected Photographer Magazine - November 2003
This week, we're going to finish up our discussion of megapixels and your first digital camera with a short discussion of those little memory cards upon which you store your images.
Introducing the Your First Digital Camera audio workshop
Connected Photographer Magazine - November 2003
It became clear that there was a need for a comprehensive course in what, exactly, a digital camera is, what it can and can't do, and guidance in how to purchase the right one. Rather than providing a set of reviews for cameras that change each week, we decided to create a program to help you truly understand digital cameras, how they work, the tradeoffs involved in any purchase, and how to get the most productivity and enjoyment out of them. Learn about our new audio workshop in this article.
What the heck is a megapixel?
Connected Photographer Magazine - November 2003
When choosing a digital camera, most people start by thinking about the number of megapixels they'll need. But what are megapixels and how does that measure determine what camera you should choose? Read this article to find out.
Your first digital camera
Connected Photographer Magazine - November 2003
This article first appeared in Computing Unplugged and kicked off a firestorm of interest in digital cameras. After talking with readers and getting hundreds of letters, we decided to move up our schedule for Connected Photographer Magazine and launch now. This article started it all.
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