Purchase a "proper" PDA - half the battle. It is equally important to find a small digital assistant position in her life. Although habituation to the PDA is quite rapidly, but further toys or her short zapisochek (like - "do not forget to read this note) it is not. A pocket-sized machine - a full-fledged business tool that can do almost everything the same as the personal computer, and even more as the CCP always with me, always at hand.
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| Family photo album on Palm m 130 |
In addition to general applications, as the organizer and portable game consoles, handheld computer on the shoulder and more specialization. For a man, the pictures of active, for example, PDAs may become a universal viewer, organizer fotoknizhkoy, handy tips, say, or e-frame for an album of photos (including slides show, place the machine on your desktop, and all the young staff member - your). But you never know - with the appropriate equipment of a PDA and he becomes a camera, easy to manage, small, but not primitive. Let's look at what can pocket machine is in the field of amateur photography. (Or, specifying the problem that with all this electronic nonsense to make a photographic).
Camera plus computer
The most common case - the amateur photographer, filming ordinary film cameras, acquires a pocket computer. Sense from the CCP in combination with traditional camera a bit, but some can be found. For example, use a handheld computer for reference, "log-book - written in the notebook handheld shooting conditions (those that deserve such a record, like a macro). Since the Pocket PC every family have a text or graphical editor (or note-taking program that combines both the one and another), information which can be administered in exactly the same as on paper, drawing on the screen with a pen, like a lot of time magazine did not take . Later, in a more suitable environment, the text can be perenabrat through on-screen keyboard or the stuff on the desktop. And you can keep your handwritten notes as they are, in the form of graphic files. Finding your way in a variety of notes is easier than it might seem, since they are all saved in the machine automatically, and so they are automatically assigned a default name with the information about the date and time of recording. That is all the notes are arranged in chronological order. Another, already mentioned, the use of PDAs - as a reference. The usual program for reading electronic texts and several books on photography, injected into the memory pocket typewriter in the appropriate format, that's all the wisdom. Though for the experienced hiker, and especially the photographer will be useful not lecture in photography (or long forgotten light tables of latitude and time of year - what they are for modern cameras with automatic exposure control?), And a set of topographic maps and background information about the places where captures the photographer is not an easy ... There are some nuances. For example, a PDA is better to choose a particular model of digital camera and vice versa (in the "opposite" the dominant position still in the camera, if it is primarily a photographer, and then on "kompyuterolyubitele). The fact that a PDA, and digital cameras use removable storage media of the same type - flash memory card. But they may not be compatible with each other physically. For example, in cameras Olympus, certainly superior digital cameras, card format used by Smart Media. In addition to the camera like the card can be inserted in either player MP3, or adapter to read on a PC. In PDA memory card in this format do not apply. That is to take advantage of the CPC in conjunction with this digital camera can not be ... Much more versatile two other format flash memory card - CompactFlash and Memory Stick.The first format - CompactFlash - used in handheld computers, family Pocket PC, Handheld PC and in most older machines based operating system, Windows CE (on Psion 5mx not say intentionally, as this computer screen is not color, and to engage in photography, this feature is crucial value). The same type of memory cards used in digital cameras following manufacturers - Canon, Nikon, Minolta, Hewlett-Packard (read - Pentax), Casio and a few others.
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| The New Sony NR70 c digital camera |
In PDA Sony CLIE (all models) used memory card format Memory Stick. They also supplied with all digital cameras Sony. Clearly, when selecting a computer to your camera (or, again, vice versa) should pay attention on the type of removable media.
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| Photos made by the CPC Sony NR70 |
A few words about the cameras. Among digital cameras average amateur class (worth 200 to $ 600) to assign anything sverhvydayuscheesya difficult. At the bottom (from cheap camera), attracted the attention of the camera PhotoSmart from Hewlett-Packard. Despite some annoying omissions (no secure front of the lens, which also supports the frame size, and the inability to use the built-in LCD display for framing - a significant minus for macro photography), these cameras (low-end models, starting with the latest 120 - th) look very good. And the images give excellent for such a cheap camera quality.
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| Stylish and very little IXUS |
Among the cameras from Canon I like most metal, stylish and very little IXUS (any of the modifications, which differ between a multiplicity of zoom). Well, Nikon, even in Africa Nikon. Bad camera this brand does not happen. About Sony is a special subject. I do not really like computers, CLIE (recently spent a lot of time trying to establish contact monochrome S300 with PC, but won only half: on one computer turned on one another - yet). But digital cameras from Sony is impossible not to admire. What do you want - Sony is at the origins of digital photography itself. It is in this company was drafted Mavika, in the mid-eighties, when an accomplishment has been a computer with a processor 80286 and the video card VGA. Another, the last this time, detail from the world of digital photography. Why are digital cameras so expensive? Even a simple little "soap box" costs several times more expensive than analog film. The problem - in the light-sensitive sensor, the main part of any digital camera. Output of quality products at factories producing the CCD does not exceed 2%. Ninety-eight percent of marriage! I hope this explains it all ... What might be useful photographer Pocket PC? The most obvious - PDAs can be used for detailed viewing of the newly captured images. There is no dispute can view footage on normal camera display. But the convenience (and, incidentally, detail) is not on the level. Rearranging the memory card into the PDA (preferably in a Pocket PC, although the owners of Sony cameras have no choice) and run the graphics viewer, sequence, frame by frame, opening the images recorded on the card flash memory camera. Only a minute, and we routinely scan the captured image at a relatively large (a factor of three or four more than the camera display) screen PDA.
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| Program-viewer Resco Picture Viewer |
Program, viewers, such as Microsoft Image Viewer (I use it on the Casio BE-300), can display an image of the real size and preview - a miniature. On preview assess compositional part of the picture, the true image We find the error in detail. Bad shots delete. Along the way, if the camera is then not zakapriznichaet, rename pictures. If the camera becomes "object" (most cameras only support their file names are presented in the form of a combination of numbers), we can write images in a memory device. Immediately we can change the format - with the BMP to JPEG or JPEG to TIFF. But it is better to leave the matter for later, for photo editing on the desktop (and I do not know - is there any graphics converters for handheld machines, and if so, how much work properly). Depending on your camera model content, removable memory cards in the file manager handheld computer may have a different view. In simple cameras recorded images of the root drive (flash memory card is recognized by the computer as a regular hard drive). Pocket PC with this "dump" works fine, without any kind of conflict. Apart from the obvious benefits of a handheld computer for digital photography is and the benefits obvious. Due to the fact that viewing stock photography will be done on a computer screen rather than display the camera, the stock battery capacity is enough for a much longer battery life. Color camera display - the "ravenous" consumer power ... My shy "Kaskiv (I like sheep named" Beshka ") allows you to extend the process of shooting twice. Anyway, flash memory cards end up faster than the camera's battery is discharged.
Computer plus a camera
By simple (although quite expensive) manipulation in the digital camera can be turned himself PDA. A more or less actively traded PV modules are known to me are two models - for the Palm `s and Casio. It seems that there are other devices, but to me they have not yet come across.
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| Fotopristavka from Kodak for Palm |
About Kodak `-native" gadgets "for Palm computers, I can say that the serious impression this is not a toy. Plastic optics, low resolution and sensitivity of the sensor, a monochrome screen the host ... No, not really. There would be (or have already appeared) cameras for color Palm `s, but they still have to look at. But the photo module Casio JK-710DC - curious thing. She (or he?) Is a CF card with a sort of bomboshkoy top, which is mounted swivel lens.
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| Photo module from Casio |
Characteristics of the camera are rather modest. Matrix of 350 thousand pixels, the sensitivity of the standard - about 100 units of ISO. Flash, of course, not. Small matter, but in a room to rent is difficult - dark. As a reticle used screen handheld machines. The shutter release program (you can program any hardware button). Focusing is not needed, since used the lens mounted on the hyperfocal distance (the pictures will be sharp from a distance, and more). In memory of the computer fit from 100 to 400 shots, which clearly points to a greater degree of compression when saving images (which is "not good"). Even at a resolution of 640x480 pixels and 16-bit color file size is not as very small.But the format is JPEG, in which the computer stores photos, has a wide range of compression. This camera image quality sacrificed for the sake of their number ... In principle, fine. Exhibition of photos of the toy is still not done. A bundle of money, which for all of these miniature charms will have to pay, in the wallet is unlikely to fit. The authors, translation:
Nikolai Yakovlev