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Photo Books – Professional Storage for Digital Images
2010-09-30 | 
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Photo Books – Professional Storage for Digital Images
Like many people, Jason Alford is rarely seen without his digital camera in hand.
“You just never know when you’re going to need it,” said Alford, a graphic designer from Atlanta, Georgia. “The technology has really made taking pictures easier and more convenient than ever.”
Alford uses the HP Photosmart M437 – an inexpensive digital camera he said is ideal for his casual, everyday use. Running as little as , the price tag on these devices has decreased while their popularity has increased, making the informal practice of digital photography commonplace in today’s society. Besides their affordability and high-quality imaging, digital cameras require no film purchase, and users always have the option of deleting “unflattering” snapshots – just some of the attributes that have added to the appeal of this technology.
“I honestly don’t know how I ever lived without my camera,” Alford said. “Although I’m not a professional photographer, the ease of use with digital cameras makes you feel like you are.”
While his digital camera was inexpensive, Alford said it also lacks a large enough memory to hold the multitude of pictures he takes. With 16 megabytes of space, no sooner does an image catch his eye than he has to find a method of preserving it, resulting in a mess of compact discs and files hogging up his hard drive.
“I don’t want to lose these images forever,” Alford said. “I’ve got some uploaded online, but that’s really hard to keep up with. I realize I’m not a professional photographer, but I took these pictures for a reason, and preserving them in some way is really important to me.”
For Alford, what used to be a challenge is now easier than ever after he discovered photo books. Ranging in sizes from 4×6 to 8 1/2×11, the professional appeal of the black-linen hardcover books makes a perfect display for his digital printouts.
“I like the PhotoBook Creator by Unibind, which is a binding machine that actually lets me make my own photo albums at home,” Alford said. “I use Kodak Photo Paper to print out the images I want to bind, although the machine works with any kind of paper, and the pages are literally bound in 90 seconds! It’s so easy, and it makes for an amazing catalogue of some of my favorite images.”
What was traditionally thought of as an expense is, according to Alford, quite a reasonable value. With an average cost of per photo book, he said he now has an amazing collection of catalogues for the various trips, family gatherings and amazing sights he’s caught on camera. Besides personal fulfillment, the photo books he makes often go to loved ones as gifts or memoirs.
“Most people have a nice book on their coffee table, but I’ve got a portfolio of some of the best images I’ve ever taken,” Alford said. “Anytime someone comes to visit, it’s always a conversation starter. The ability to make high-quality photo books at home has ended up making me even more passionate about my hobby.”
Tara Baker is a freelance journalist and enjoys digital scrapbooking and making digital photo books.
Tara Baker is a freelance journalist and enjoys digital scrapbooking and making digital photo books.
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Canon Powershot Digital Camera is a Superior Pro-sumer Product
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Canon Powershot Digital Camera is a Superior Pro-sumer Product
You will find that digital cameras can be used in a variety of situations. These can be functions, weddings, birthdays and even pictures of nature. The Canon digital cameras are suited for these many events. In the Canon range the Canon PowerShot Digital camera has the ability to fulfill this role quite well.
The many Canon PowerShot Digital cameras are about the size of a credit card. The Canon PowerShot Digital camera is considered to be among the smallest digital cameras that have been produced. While this camera is small it still manages to give you high quality pictures.
The Canon PowerShot Digital camera case is made from steel. The exterior appearance of the digital camera is flat fronted. To protect the lens of the camera you will find that this digital camera comes equipped with an automatic lens cover. This cover will protect your digital camera when it is not in use.
Since the camera is made from steel and it has a protective covering for the camera lens you will not have to worry about handling the camera in the worry of something happening to it.
As the Canon PowerShot Digital camera is stylish due to the steel casing which lends it a sense of sophistication you are more likely to take this camera along with you when you go out. This means that you are more likely to take a fantastic photograph with the Canon PowerShot Digital camera.
The various Canon PowerShot Digital cameras all belong to the Canon Digital Elph family. These cameras are all designed to be small is size and yet they give superior performance value.
Most of the digital cameras that are being sold in the world are known by one name like Pentax, Minolta and Kodak digital cameras. The Canon PowerShot Digital camera is however given other names in a variety of countries. These names are Digital Ixus in Europe and South East Asia. In Japan this camera is called the Ixy Digital camera.
The best fact about the Canon PowerShot Digital camera is that it has been designed to merge traditional photography with that of digital photography products. This allows you to take conventional photos without having to worry about setting the cameras to various settings. All that you need to do is to point and click.
The many experts who have reviewed this camera state that the Canon PowerShot Digital camera is a good buy for the average consumer. This digital camera is known to be a superior pro-sumer product.
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Best Photo Sharing Site
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Best Photo Sharing Site
Image by Chris Pirillo
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live.pirillo.com – Vlogger81 asks "what is the best photo sharing site?" The answer, we found, is pretty simple: use the website your friend are using! Flickr is currently the photo sharing service of choice for most geeks:We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.Maybe they want to keep a blog of moments captured on their cameraphone, or maybe they want to show off their best pictures to the whole world in a bid for web celebrity. Or maybe they want to securely and privately share photos of their kids with their family across the country. Flickr makes all these things possible and more!Of course, you could always use Webshots:With 7.2 Million* monthly visitors and more than 400 million photos to explore, Webshots is one of the largest photo- and video-sharing sites.Webshots provides you with a variety of ways to enjoy photos and videos:Free and premium memberships with tons of storageyou’ll never run out!Share photos, video
s and slideshows on Webshots and your personal website.Download professional photos in Webshots Pro Shots.Access Webshots on the go with Webshots Mobile.Easily manage your online photos with the FREE Webshots Desktop.Order prints and make custom photos gifts that anyone will love.And more!Chris is using ShoZu to upload his videos and images from his cameraphone:ShoZus providing media and consumer brands with a unique mobile channel for content distribution and interaction with their consumers.Explore the world of ShoZu: our innovative services, our patented technology, our growing list of content, community, handset and operator partners.Learn why partners and consumers simply cant get enough of ShoZu!This video was originally shared on blip.tv by l0ckergn0me with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDe
rivs license.
Irrigation Lines at Hayes Valley Farm – 7/8/10
Image by edibleoffice
NOTES 2.
MAP NOTES
I’m working with the Drupal Open Garden Project to figure out online tools, processes, and strategies that support gardeners. We’re interested in building and designing useful maps.
REQUIREMENTS
Essential
- Can be used by and adapted to the needs of any community garden or urban farm
- Decided to just use Google maps for showing Resources (soil/mulch), and can move towards open layers/open source if we decide it’s a priority and will further what we’re doing.
- Some groups are using open layers to support multiple data sets: like showing open lots or who has backyard space to share, showing human use patterns, etc.. Chach says: this requires a commitment to have good, accurate, up-to-date well-organized data – recommend that we use google maps first; or use other data lists with rss feeds but needs to offer additional value.
- 9/17/10: chach has some ideas about using Flickr images/sets to have people write comments about different resources, tag them, and then pull the sets into feeds
- if we used open layers, we’d want to show multiple data types (text, images, etc.)
Nice to Have
- Can be printed
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MAP RESEARCH
Hayes Valley Farm map (aerial view) – data displayed (on rollover) about different areas on the farm.
- MAP APPLICATION TYPE: Uses Flickr, an online photo sharing tool. Flickr allows comments to be layered over an image.
- PRO: Data can be entered easily by non-technical user (using the online photo sharing site Flickr).
- CON: Can’t view more than one data point at once. Not ideal from user experience perspective (want visual persistence to be able to provide context and relationships between points on the map), nor as a teaching tool (I’d like to be able to print out a version of this with all the dynamic elements showing at once and show it during a design presentation)
Research/Links from the Drupal Open Garden Project
- Research and notes
- Map Project Research.
- Links to related apps, interfaces, organizations
- List of Mapping Projects
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Got Ideas, Feedback, Cool Maps?
What kind of maps do you find useful or inspiring? What do you want to see on a Hayes Valley Farm map?
Leave comments and ideas here
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GOALS & REQUIREMENTS FOR A MAP
Ideas To Explore:
- water sources/irrigation system (a tool for the Breakfast Clubbers?)
- orchard map of the freeway food forest
- plant map (wild and cultivated): what’s growing in different parts of the farm, and around the neighborhood
- Hayes Valley neighborhood map
- lifecycle/wastestream map of how resources travel through the neighborhood
- resource map (where in the city to get mulch, poo, cardboard)
- Margaretha: heat map of social activity/energies on the farm, like world cup (margaretha, i like your idea to do this one). how people navigate a public space
- a ‘virtual tour’ through site (the images from my Landscapes of Hayes Valley Farm are in a ‘walking order’ from the Freeway food forest moving counter-clockwise (to the parking lot, greenhouse, beehives)
- before/after (maps/photos showing transformation of the site)
- Jay: map showing neighborhood association lines. this is different from a neighborhood map – the associations have their own distinct boundaries
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MAP APPS
- From James: gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfviewer/INDEX.htm (best viewed in IE – sheesh). I’ve reviewed this and outlined some requirements in NOTES 3
- Neighborhood fruit (iphone app)
- Seasonal Ingredients Map from Epicurious
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NOTES / MAP RESEARCH
- NOTES 1 (overview of Open Garden Project/mapping project)
- NOTES 2 (requirements/goals)
- NOTES 3 (review of some complex map interfaces/apps, with additional notes on requirements)
- NOTES 4 (images related to hayes valley farm for map research and design)
Dustproof DSLR Camera is still and movie capable.
2010-09-30 | 0 Comments
Dustproof DSLR Camera is still and movie capable.
Splashproof DSLR camera, E-5 features 12.3 megapixel high-speed live MOS sensor with TruePic V+ image processing engine that includes “Fine Detail Processing” technology for detailing in photographs. It has 3 in. dual axis swivel HyperCrystal® LCD with 920,000 dots to frame HD videos and still images at any angle. In-body mechanical image stabilization allows for camera movement up to 5 steps EV …
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Asiad coloured Indian TV, now CWG to spur HDTV
By Prashant Sood, New Delhi, Sep 27 : If the 1982 Asian Games heralded the colour TV era in India, the Commonwealth Games (CWG) are likely to spur the growth of high definition TV. For national broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) will bring the event in high quality digital format with cameras on land, in water and from helicopters.
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