1. Digital Imaging Suggested purchases Why bother? Chris Conti 6/01

3. Myth #1 Good digital cameras aren’t cheap, but… The savings in film and processing And the improved quality of production eventually outweigh the original cost. It’s too expensive.

4. Sure they can! A $500-700 camera will take at 1/800 which stops action well; however, it takes a second to release the shutter. To catch action, the photographer will have to anticipate the shot and release a bit earlier, but it’s not difficult. Myth #2 They can’t take sports

5. Let new photographers take lots of photos and review them to get some practice predicting action. No is film wasted and they get immediate feedback. Tip Inside and outside without a flash

6. Outside sports

7. Inside sports

9. Quality not as good as 35mm It’s better! The photos I’ve taken both personally and with school are at a higher quality than ones I’ve taken with a 35 mm camera. For personal prints, try uploading to Yahoo photos. For .50 for professionally printing per picture. $5 for an 8x10. Myth #4

10. The not-so-fine print Batteries run down quickly. Camera manuals say that you can conserve battery power by not using the LCD view, but that is the best feature of the camera. NiCad (Nickel Cadmium) batteries are the most widely used type of rechargeable battery. Don’t even bother with regular AA batteries. You may need to invest in more memory. It’s easy to fill a hard drive with photos. More RAM, more hard drive space, Zip drives, network space, tape back ups and/or CD burners may become a necessity. Things to consider

11. Erased means erased. There’s no undo once you hit “Yes, delete.” You might want to back up often or have one location where all originals are stored. Get a camera with a LCD monitor. You can delete right in the camera and retake shots. This is useful for mug shots too because you can show the person their photo and retake if needed. Downloading -- you have several options. Cameras come with cables, but you can purchase a Flash Path which allow you to insert the Smart Media card into a floppy drive or a disk card reader that is like small external floppy. The not-so-fine print Things to consider

12. Files names need to be detailed and you will need to organize files. Most cameras download and name each photo by number which makes it difficult to remember that the softball photo you need is really P1823974. When resaving the photo, it will need to be named something more than softball.jpg or it will be of little use to the person looking for a photo and photos saved by the same file name will write over each other. The not-so-fine print Things to consider

13. Suggestion: have the photographer save the files as what it is, who is in it and who took it. For example that softball photo could be called: SB AshleyG run3 JS.jpg which means that Joe Smith took a softball picture of Ashley G running at third. Walsworth would like you to resave the photo as the page number and position and put those photos in a file named for the page, because they will need the originals. For example : p120pos3 (means page 120 position 3) saved in a folder called “pp120-121 art.” File names Always process ASAP

14. Always watch your pixel count when processing your digital image, so you don’t throw away the resolution/pixels that your camera caught. Under IMAGE SIZE, Click RESAMPLE IMAGE until the resolution is linked with the size and set your resolution to 225 for publishing yearbook or 170 for most newspapers. (Your photo size should decrease, but the pixels will be the same.) Then click the box off and decrease the photo size if needed. The not-so-fine print Things to consider If you plan to crop a lot, do so before you do ANY step

15. Use the ACTIONS palette on Photoshop to do several procedures automatically. These actions make everything a lot easier, but you should only record commands that you can run on all photos. Then you can tweak each photo as needed. We have one action that changes the resolution for publishing, then resizes, changes it to CMYK color and applies an unsharp mask. We have another action to make a photo ready for the web (changing the photo back to RGB and the resolution back to 72dpi.) If you have several photos to process, you can BATCH them. The not-so-fine print Things to consider

16. What do I HAVE to buy? A good camera $500-800 Memory for camera $100-200 Batteries and charger $50-100 Minimum Total $650-1100 Also may need to update computer system and may need to purchase more storage space. May need to purchase Adobe PhotoShop or similar software.

18. Comparison made at Ritzcamera.com 6/01 Compare Let's

19. Many student journalists use Kodak DC-4800 3.3 Mega-pixels $600 Nikon CoolPix series 2.1-3.3 Mega-pixels $450-700 Olympus C-series 2.1-3.3 Mega-pixels $500-$800

20. Nikon D1-X Nikon lenses fit it Top shutter speed of 1/16,000 sec. What the professionals are using Runs about $5000

21. Recharger: About $25 with 4 batteries Extra batteries: about $4 each. You gotta purchase NiCad (Nickel Cadmium) batteries charge quickly, last approximately 700 charge and discharge cycles, and perform well in low temperatures. Rechargeable alkaline batteries are not a good alternative for use in digital cameras. Teach everyone about recharging.

22. Memory: About $50 for 32MB You gotta purchase Two types: SmartMedia and CompactFlash

23. SanDisk ImageMate ImageMate sits on your desk and acts like a removable disk drive, treating the memory card like a diskette. Download helpers Optional purchase About $90 FlashPath Memory card slides into FlashPath and becomes an A-drive/floppydrive reader. About $80

29. Placing in Pagemaker Always click NO. Then submit the folder of photos with your pages. This keeps the file size smaller.