“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?
Some pluses would be the distribution and manipulation of images. They can be used in OT practice to take photos of client’s houses that need to be modified. You can print the photos that you have taken on your camera off your computer once to have downloaded them to it. This only takes a few moments whereas if you were using a traditional film based camera it would take a day or over night to get them developed.
Some minuses would be that the cameras a quite small and easy to misplace. There are lots of settings on the cameras which can be quite confusing for some people who aren’t very good with cameras. Also sometimes the photo quality is not so good which means they can turn out fuzzy and hard to see.
List some of the ways that digital images can be stored transferred and manipulated using other communications technology.
Emails
Phones
Memory sticks
CDs
DVDs
Laptops
On the web
Video cameras
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.
People could take photos of someone without asking their permission and then post them on the internet.
The right people receiving the information. E.g. trustworthy who you know.
Briefly discuss some of the ways that digital images could, or are, being used in occupational therapy practice.
Housing modifications.
Recording clients while they are doing certain occupations.
Equipment- to show the clients what it looks like.
Manuals with pictures- also to show clients different types of equipment.
Provide a brief summary of the services offered by Flickr.com
Flickr.com is an image and video hosting website, web services suite and an online community platform. It is a popular website for users to share personal photographs and the users to share personal photographs. The service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr.com
Name one other photo storage website which offers a service similar to Flickr.com
Photoshop
Bebo
Facebook
Explain what the difference is between a digital and an optical zoom
Optical zoom works just like a zoom lens on a film camera. The lens changes focal length and magnification as it is zoomed.
Digital zoom simply crops the image to a smaller size then enlarges the cropped portion to fill the frame again.
Explain what is meant by the term mega pixel
Mega pixel refers to one million pixels and is the smallest piece of information in a photo image.
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