Digital Photography News

Are you of an age that you recall photograph sheds? Few people do these days. Long before digital cameras, photos were taken on film, and folk were made to entrust their rather adored memories to these small kiosks in food store parking lots.

In fact , film had to be developed — and most people did not know how to perform that in their house.

At the present, only hobbyists and executives who are inflexibly opposed to change use old-style film cameras. Photo generation has gone digital — and photograph sheds are demolished or modified to hot dog stands.

Electronic cameras — sometimes called digital cameras — capture photographs on internal storage devices or replacable memory cards compared to rolls of old fashioned film. Though tries at manufacturing filmless cameras date at least to the Nineteen Sixties, the infamous camera maker Eastman Kodak is given credit for producing the first digital camera. Their engineer Steven Sasson made it in 1975. The monstrosity weighed an amazing 8 pounds and only ca ught black and white images. And disregard memory cards — the image was stored on a cassette tape at a resolution of only ten thousand pixels. In the current’s terms, that is’s about 0.01 million pixels.

Sasson’s camera wasn’t mass-produced, it laid the technological foundation for a sector that would ultimately consume the old-style film camera and take a serious piece from Kodak’s place as the number one provider in photograph equipment. Though Kodak has remained a major player, its existence as the apparent and undisputed leader in the field are well past.

Fuji is alleged to have presented the 1st truly electronic camera in Japan in the late 80′s, though sources argue about whether that camera actually made it into the hands of c ustomers. In 1990 , however, the Dycam Model 1 became the first widely-available digicam. Kodak followed shortly after with its junior level model costing over thirteen thousand dollars and providing 1.3 megapixels of resolution. Digital camera prices stayed beyond reach of most c lients throughout the 20th century.

At this point, digital cameras are obtainable for a little less than a hundred dollars — and professional models cost just a few hundred dollars, in numerous cases.

Besides improved storage strategies, digicams also have other edges over their film based predecessors. Screens permit users to look at what they’ve captured immediately and possibly retake if necessary. And currently even low-cost digicams can take video, too.

Digital technology has become so minute that cameras are now not separate devices for loads of users. Smart telephones, iPhones and PDAs normally have digital cameras adequate for common use built straight in.

Some drugstore stores also sell limited-life digicams planned to take just a couple of dozen photos and then was turned in for prints. This places electronic cameras into the throwaway age, a mark their film camera predecessors had reached before digital led straight to their demise.

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Is the Nikon CoolPix S220 digital camera comparable to a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS15?

I have an HP 6.2 megapixel camera that’s 4 years old that I’ve always liked well enough, but I want to get something a little better/newer. I saw the Nikon CoolPix on Walmart’s website, and it’s only around $120. I don’t have experience with Nikon, but a friend of mine has a Panasonic Lumix that works quite well. The Nikon is 10MP, and the Panasonic is 12MP, so maybe this is the main difference? Thanks in advance.

Answer
I’d give the edge to the Panasonic. The zoom range on the panasonic is 5x which is better than the 3x on the Nikon. This means you will get a wider wide angle shot (29mm vs 35mm) and a higher magnification on the telephoto end too (145mm vs 105mm). The Panasonic uses both optical and digital image stabilization while the Nikon only used digital (the cheapest and lesser effective form of image stabilization)

10MP vs 12MP makes virtually no difference at all so that is not important.

Both have nearly a 1 second shutter lag which means the camera does not take a picture until nearly a second after push the shutter button. OK for posed snap shots, but a deal breaker if you are trying to capture a fleeting image.

The Nikon has slightly poorer picture quality than the Panasonic and that is not due to the pixel count, it is due to poorer processing of the image. BTW MP count should rarely be used as a benchmark for picture quality. Most DSLR’s with 5MP that will blow a 12MP point and shoot camera away. But what’s important to you is probably picture quality of 4×6″ prints and computer viewed pictures. Both of these will be completely adequate for this.

If it were up to me and I had to choose between just these two, I’d go for the Panasonic even though it is about $50 more.