“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?
"Film and digital do different things better and complement each other. Neither is going away, although film will decline in areas where digital excels, like news."
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I think that for personal family use or for anyone really who is not a keen photographer but just likes taking some holiday and birthday snaps, then a digital camera is better. They are better because you can retake photos that don't quite turn out and people can see them straight away. You can choose which ones you want to print and which ones you want to delete. These are all handy features for an everyday camera, for someone just taking personal photos. For a professional photographer I belive film is better because it has a better finished product and doesn't come out pixelated as digital camera photos do. They can focus in different ways, to highlight different things. There are different lenses that you can put on to change the photos image. They leave room for more artisitic freedom.
List some of the ways that digital images can be stored transferred and manipulated using other communications technology.
cell phones
disks/memory sticks/cds
personal webpages eg. bebo, myspace photoshop (used to alter images and add features)
email
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.
Ethical isues arouund the use of images are often in terms of a person involved in the image not giving informed consent. They then may not know how the material will be used, adjusted or who will be able to see it. A prime example of this is when Kate Winslet was made to look far skinnier than she is, on a magazine cover and she was outraged. She has always been an actress who advocated eating decent meals and being healthy rather than being ridiculously skinny. I find it sad to think that young girls are looking at these images and thinking that these people look as they do in the media.
Other problems are images that are taken privately and are sometimes exploited for money or out of spite. This leaves the other party feeling betrayed and often embarrased. Images being used inappropriately in this way is commonly done on the internet, as it is available to essentially the whole world on the web.
In many ways it is hard to control how your image is used and who can see this image. There are too many ways that these images can be stored, altered and displayed
Briefly discuss some of the ways that digital images could, or are, being used in occupational therapy practice.
Some images are used to advertise a service supplied by an occupational therapist eg. a day programme may be advertised by using some images of people who already come to the programme, doing some of the activities and having a good time.
Sometimes images may be used for education purposes, either for other occupational therapists or for clients. They could be pictures of the steps in a recipe for making a cake accompanied by the written instruction also. In the case of the other ocupational therapists that may be your colleagues, this could be something like pictures of manifestations of a certain diagnosis.
Provide a brief summary of the services offered by Flickr.com
"Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. As of November 2007, it hosts more than two billion images."
Retrieved on May 20, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr
Name one other photo storage website which offers a service similar to Flickr.com
Shutterfly
Explain what the difference is between a digital and an optical zoom
"Digital zoom crops your image and magnifies the result of the cropping."
"Optical zoom lenses physically extend to magnify your subject."
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Explain what is meant by the term mega pixel
"Digital images are made up of thousands of these tiny, tile-like picture elements.... Digital cameras capture images as pixel elements, known as pixels. Simply put, a megapixel is equal to one million pixels."
Retrieved on May 22, 2008, from http://www.digicamhelp.com/camera-features/camera-parts/megapixels.php
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