Good for snapshots, especially outdoors and web/email ..

1
Consumer Electronics

• February 8, 2006

2
What type of Digital Camera is right for me?
3
Types of digital cameras

• Basic Point and Shoot
• Advanced Point and Shoot
• Prosumer
• Professional- SLR

4
Basic Point and Shoot

• Tiny, fits in a pocket or part of a cell phone,
  use it anytime
• 1-3 Megapixels
• 20-200
• Good for snapshots, especially outdoors and
  web/email
• Usually has little optical zoom, may not have a
  flash or viewfinder
• May also function as a webcam

5
Basic Point and Shoot
6
Advanced Point and Shoot

• better pictures but still easy to use
• 3-5 Megapixels and up
• 150-400
• Good for snapshots, portraits and small
  enlargements- up to about 8X10 and web/email
• Typically 3X optical and additional digital zoom,
  and a built in flash
• May capture short video clips, have Macro
  (close-up) and other special effects

7
Advanced Point and Shoot
8
Prosumer

• prosumer (proh.SOO.mur) n. 1. A consumer who is
  an amateur in a particular field, but who is
  knowledgeable enough to require equipment that
  has some professional features ("professional"
  "consumer").
• www.wordspy.com

9
Prosumer

• More control, zoom features, but still lets
  you point and shoot
• 5 Megapixels and up
• 200-900
• Good for all types of pictures and larger
  enlargements
• Up to 12X optical zoom, built in and hot shoe
  flash options
• May include ability to manually control settings,
  image stabilization, burst mode
• Less shutter lag

10
Prosumer
11
dSLR- Digital Single Lens Reflex

• Gives you lots of choices and control
• 700-5000
• If you really want control, more camera- like,
  can change lens, manually focus
• Zoom depends on lens, flash options. May not
  have an LCD, uses mirror to view through the lens
• Almost no shutter lag- best type for shooting
  action stills
• No video

12
digital SLR
13
Software

• Organizing
• Picasa
• Adobe Photo Album
• Comcast Photoshow
• Editing
• Picasa
• Photoshop Elements

14
Sharing

• KodakGallery.com
• Shutterfly.com
• Flickr.com
• Yahoo photos
• Snapfish.com

15
MP3 Players

• Features and uses

16
What is MP3?

• Digital audio encoding and lossy compression
  format
• Designed to greatly reduce the amount of data
  required to represent audio, yet still sound like
  a faithful reproduction of the original
  uncompressed audio to most listeners
• Also refers to files of sound or music recordings
  stored in the MP3 format on computers.
• www.wikipedia.com

17
Types of MP3 Players

• Flash memory
• Hard drive
• Audio only
• Audio and pictures
• Video, too

18
Flash Memory MP3 Players

• Lower price
• No moving parts- so they dont skip when dancing
• Small capacity (typically 128 MB-1GB)
• 4-20 hours of music storage
• Limited features (eg. iPod Shuffle)- although
  newer players (eg. iPod Nano) have more
• Simple to use

19
Flash Memory MP3 Players
20
Hard Drive MP3 Players

• Higher price
• Large capacity (typically 5-40GB)
• Music storage up to 15,000 songs
• Larger, sometimes color screen
• Photos,Video
• Audiobooks, FM transmitter
• Organizer, games, alarms, contacts

21
Hard Drive MP3 Players
22
Reviews

• http//reviews.CNet.com
• http//www.dpreview.com
• http//www.epinions.com
• http//www.bizrate.com
• http//www.consumerreports.org
• http//consumerguide.com
• http//www.camerareview.com/