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Cory Photography with Tom and Pat Cory |
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Newsletter September, 2006 |
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Newfoundland, 2006 |
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Cory Photography NEWSLETTER 21 September 12, 2006
In this edition you will find:
Hints for Sending Pictures via Email Comments on the Sony DSC-H5 Processing of Fuji Mailers Some Resources for Travel Information New Products from VisibleDust A Strange Delta Policy Remaining 2006 Schedule 2007 Schedule A Look Ahead to 2008
Hello!
We've been busy putting next year's schedule together and we still have several local workshops scheduled for this fall. You can find details at the end of this newsletter along with more information on our website which we have just updated. If you have been thinking about joining us in New Zealand with our extension to Australia this is a good time to sign up.
We hope that you've had a great summer and now that there's a promise of cooler weather, we hope that you will have a chance to get out for some photography this fall.
Have fun with your photography!
Tom and Pat
Hints for Sending Pictures via Email
One of the wonderful things about digital photography is that it's so easy to share your images with your friends via email. Not everyone realizes that there are good ways and not so good ways to do this. Your original image probably has many more pixels, that is, bits of data, than you need to be sending for your viewer to see your entire image on the computer screen. If both you and your recipient have high speed Internet access and your recipient is fairly savvy about handling digital images it isn't a problem. The thing is, screens display at only 72 to 96 pixels per inch. Therefore you need to reduce the number of pixels you are sending for your viewer to easily see the whole image without having to scroll around on the screen because it's too big to fit (not to mention having to wait forever if they are still on a dial up connection). The easiest way to accomplish this is to check to see if the software you are using to send emails has a way to insert pictures into the email (most do). This software will automatically reduce the size of your picture and make it easy for you and your recipient. If this doesn't work or you prefer to use image editing software, you will want to go out and resize a copy of your image before you send it. A good rule of thumb is to send an image that is no larger than 600 x 400 pixels. A quality setting of 7 or 8 for this JPEG file is usually a good choice since it will further reduce the size of the file. However, of course, if your intent is to send your original file to someone, for example if they want to print the image, then simply send your image as an attachment and hope that you both have a high speed connection.
Comments on the Sony DSC-H5
Keeping up with the newest offering in the world of digital cameras is overwhelming and ever changing. We were looking for a lightweight digital camera somewhere between an SLR and a pocket camera for travel. After I lost the new Canon S3 (which I really did like) at an Internet Café (a sad story), Tom was kind enough not to kill me and we tried again with the Sony DSC-H5. What a fantastic little camera! Somebody did their homework in designing this camera in both features and ease of use. What is great about it? 7 megapixels, a digital viewfinder that you can actually see through, a large LCD panel, a Carl Zeiss 12x lens (36-432mm equivalent) that is very sharp, image stabilization, and get this, a histogram that you can display while you are taking the picture instead of after the fact. It even comes with rechargeable batteries and a charger or you can use regular AA batteries. The only issues I have with it are that it does seem to like to eat battery power and it's not the easiest camera to use on the macro setting for close ups of objects that move (like butterflies).
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