Digital verses Optical Zoom by Stephen Orgill
When buying a digital camera in today's market one of the factors that you will undoubtedly be looking at the power of the zoom function. Unfortunately people who are not so experience in this field are starting to be a little mislead. Manufacturers are claiming a zoom function called digital... One final reason for digital zoom is that you may be able to see what the subject is doing through the camera a little easier while looking at the screen through digital zoom. ... The only zoom to compare is optical zoom of one camera to the optical zoom of another.

What To Look For When Buying A Digital Camera by Ricky Lim
It seems that every month, there is a new digital camera on the market claiming to be the best digital camera. Much like cell phones, there seems to be a lot of features in today’s digital cameras. So how do you know which is the best and which one is suitable for you? ... 2) Zoom Most digital cameras nowadays have both optical and digital zoom features. ... Particularly if you have a high megapixel digital camera as it can take up quite a large storage size for a single digital image. ... Be sure to select a higher optical zoom since it is better than digital zoom.

Digital Cameras: Hot Gear with the Coolest Features! by Dale L
Cameras: still known for taking pictures but assumed as digital still today. We have to understand cameras are just as important today as they have always been to us. Most photographers thought when the digital age began; we would be taking fewer pictures because there would not be the wasted... In the past, a camera limited us in many ways, but today a digital still camera, with brands like Nikon, Canon, Sony and others, who have embraced the new technology, a digital still camera has become an exciting instrument for all to photograph with.

Comparing Digital Camera Features by Steve Gargin
More people are able to afford digital cameras because their prices are falling but the number of characteristics is rising so it is important to be able to compare digital camera features. The first step in being able to compare digital camera features is to decide what you want to get out of... This is best done if you compare digital camera resolution with the size of the images that you want to print and you will find that a 1-mg camera can create a 3-by-5-inch (7.5 by 13 cm) photo-quality print; a 2-mg camera will make a 5-by-7-inch (13 by 18 cm) print; a 3-mg camera will make an...

Features To Look For When Buying A Digital Camera by Syed Abedin
First of all we must distinguish between two types of cameras: Digital Cameras and SLR Professional cameras. If you want a decent camera that you will use to take pictures within the family, holiday pictures or simply even taking pictures of items to list on eBay, then a digital camera is for you. ... For a digital camera, the optical zoom is on average 3.0-5.0 (odd cases of special digital cameras have an optical zoom of 6.0-10.0, but are in the region of £350). ... What to look for when choosing the right camera for you: I have just differentiated the two major types of camera, but what...

A Guide to Digital Cameras by Mike Bryant
When my wife and I first found out a few years ago that we were going to have a baby, we both automatically shifted to baby-prep mode. She spent her time buying pretty things for the nursery and shopping for cribs and car seats. Like the ultra geek that I am, I started shopping for a digital... When buying a digital camera, I completely ignore the digital zoom capabilities, instead looking only at the optical zoom. ... I suggest you buy as much camera as you can afford, however, as it never hurts to take pictures that are larger than you need, and you never know—you might want to print a...

Getting more Battery Time from your Digital Camera Battery by Ziv Haparnas
Like other portable consumer electronic devices digital cameras use batteries as their power source. All batteries have one major drawback: they only last for a limited time. In this article we will explain what camera features consume the most energy and how you can squeeze more life time out... The biggest energy consumers in a digital camera are the LCD screen and the motors that move the mechanical components of the camera such as the lenses when focusing or zooming. ... Motors consume relatively a lot of energy when moving the digital camera optical components.

The MEGXON MX7 Digital Camera by Alan King
The MEGXON MX7 Digital Camera is a powerful camera with a number of useful features. The camera produces a maximum eight megpixel resolution, 3264x2448 in an interpolated mode. It can also support true 7 megapixel 3072x2304, 5 megapixel in 2560x1920, 4 megapixel in 2304x1728, 3 megapixel in... The camera has a 3x optical and 5x digital zoom. ... The camera appears best suited for a serious but not professional photographer, and is well suited for someone with an interest in artistic camera effects who does not desire to learn computer skills to create them manually.

Scoping Out the Best Digital Camcorder by Morgan Hamilton
I put a lot of research into purchasing my first digital mini DV because I wanted to have the best digital camcorder. At that time, I thought that it would be cool to become an amateur filmmaker. I had some success with the few movies I made. My movies had been shown at local film festivals and... The equipment I purchased wasn't one of those digital optical zoom pieces of junk. ... All these features made it the best digital camcorder that was on the marketing those years. ... I enjoyed the full set of adjustable lenses, the highest resolution available at the time, and the ability to do...

Motion Capture - What and How by Y.H. Lee
What is Motion Capture (MoCap)? Why use Motion Capture? Why use Inner Esteem Motion Capture Library? What are the technologies used? How do we capture the motion/ performance? What is Motion Capture (MoCap)? Motion capture, also known as Performance Capture, is a technique of digitally recording... Inner Esteem- Motion Capture Studios currently owns 16 Motion Analysis cameras; it is one of the largest optical camera systems in the Asia Pacific region. ... Optical systems that we are using allow us to incorporate directionally-reflective balls referred to as markers which attach to the...