Digital Camera use and Application

"A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature"

This statement states that though technology has advanced the changes are not always superior than the old devices. Newer technologies are different, and they will not totally replace the old technology as not every individual has the assess to computers ect or they are not willing to change or advance with society.

Digital technology is immediate as you can view the picture on the screen before it is developed. It is flexible as you can crop, delete and photoshop the picture to suit the needs of the user and also it is cost effective as the unwanted pictures can be deleted. Also digital technologies can have a larger memory and storage system allowing the increase the amount of data they can store.

Digital images can be stored, transferred and manipulated using communication technologies in many ways. They can be transfered to computers and uploaded to sites, blogs or emailed. The images can be printed at home and viewed using a computer. Digital images can be stored on disks, pen drives and in computers allowing a large data collection. Computers allow images to be manipulated through photoshop such as cropping, reduceing colour, red eye and the quality of the image.

Some ethical issues that arise with the use of image capturing devices is privacy issues, with others viewing the image without consent. Also consent of those captured in the image needs to be considered, including those in the background. Individuals need to take care in diclosing the location of individuals through images due to saftey. Another issue is identity thieft or the misuse of pictures by other users.

Digital images are being used in occupational therapy practise in many forms which include..

- Pictures of home visits- layout
- Progress pictures
- Instructional pictures- how to use equipment ect
- Cognitive assessments
- Memory activites
- Assessments

Flickr is a stite that allows the users to upload their images/ photos inorder to share them with others. Images can also be downloaded, swaped and viewed by other members. Anpther photo storage website which offers similar serivces to Flikr.com is google images.

Digital zoom simply crops the image to a smaller size, them enlarges the cropped portion to fill the frame again. Digital zoom results in a significant loss of quailty. Optical zoom works just like a zoom lens on a film camera. The lens changes focal length and magnification as it is zoomed. Image quality stays high throughout the zoom range.

A megapixel is one million pixels. Individual pixels go into making each image.