Tutorial two

Digital Camera use and applications
"A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature". Briefly discuss this statement in relation to digital camera technology. What would you consider to be some of the pluses and minuses digital camera technology holds in relation to more traditional film based cameras.
I would easily use a digital camera once a week, living in a flat with 5 other girls I admit that we love to have fun and make a fool of oneself and having a picture fro memories sake is something that is very important to me.
I have always been one that loves to take pictures and have an eye for the natural things around us. I have worked with manual “old school” cameras with film, I have processed many films myself. But as I grow I have came to learn many of the advantages of the “nearer generated” digital cameras.
Film cameras verses digital cameras are never used in today’s society. I have not in two years seen anyone use a film camera and that just proves my point that digital is so much better.
Digital cameras enable you to see the picture as soon as it is processed. You are able to, crop, edit light, clear red eyes, and add other objects to the photo. Most digital cameras offer a range of aspects. Digital cameras and it improving technology changes the way we can see things opening up a new world of art science and our all round human interaction with the world.

List some of the ways that digital images can be stored transferred and manipulated using other communication technology?
Digital images can be stored on SD or XD memory cards, CD, DVD, computer, memory stick, cellphones, or palm pilots. Digital images can transferred through email, social networking sites such as blogs, msn or facebook. Photos can be manipulated using programmes such as photo shop or CGI to enhance or change the photo i.e. clear red eyes, darken or lighten the photo, change the photo from colour to black and white or add objects or people to the photo, the list goes on. The overall technology is amazing in respect and is very easy to do.

Given the prevalence of image capturing devices, and thinking about the issues discussed in tutorial one, consider what sort of ethical issues may arise with their use?
Privacy and respect for people’s culture and beliefs has to be the main concern in today's society. Issues could be raised as to whether taking photos could invade ones privacy and put them in a vulnerable position of being in a photo that we never got consent for. Although this is something very easily done i.e. surveillance cameras we all need to be aware of peoples privacy, culture and beliefs.

Briefly discuss some of the ways that digital images could, or are, being used in occupational therapy practice?
Digital cameras are being used to take photos of a clients environment to get them funding for a housing modification or for a non common list equipment application. Photos are great in the sense as it shows the “whole picture” . The photo shows a clear and exact image of an aspect that you are for example trying to get funding from enable. Clients can b photo graphed or video conducting an activity to mark/compare their progress from the initial stage to the end.
Digital images offer a great visual learning method especially in children and can be used to enhance their learning or match their learning abilities.

Provide a brief summary of the services offered by flickr.com
Flickr.com provides a service for you to manipulate your digital images. This ranges from cropping, rotating or enhancing your photos to CGI or photo shopping it to obtain the image you want.

Name one other photo storage website which offers a service similar to flickr.com?
Photo shop, snapfish.

Explain what the difference is between a digital and optical zoom.
Most digital cameras provide two methods for zooming: optical and digital. Unlike optical zoom, which uses the optics of the lens to magnify the size of an image, digital zoom discards pixels around the edge of an image, fitting the remaining pixels into the same space to give the appearance of zoom. Since digital zoom comes at the expense of resolution, you should always choose a camera based on its optical zoom, not the digital or combined figure. Retrieved 15/05/08
www.digitalcamera-hq.com/digital-cameras/glossary-info_guide.html

Explain what is meant by the term mega pixel?
A measure of resolution that reflects the ability of a digital camera to record detail. The more megapixels a camera has the more detail its images can contain and the more they can be enlarged without losing clarity. Retrieved 15/05/08
www.digitalcamera-hq.com/digital-cameras/glossary-info_guide.html