Released on = October 4, 2006, 7:11 pm

Press Release Author = Jed & Gina Reay

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = Digital photography is the new way to take photos and offers
many conveniences that the old 110 camera just can\'t provide.

Press Release Body = When digital cameras first hit the news, I thought, Wow! Never
to have to buy film again!? This much has remained true, but it took ten years for
digital cameras to come up to the quality performed by film cameras. At first, the
pixels were too few to enlarge to 3 by 5 much less an 8 by 10 with any quality.
Today, pixels are not a problem and every feature adorning the film camera is now
available on a digital camera.

Megapixel is a technical term for \"million pixels\", where a single pixel is the
smallest unit of color that a camera\'s sensor is able to capture. The more pixels in
the sensor, the sharper the image a camera can reproduce. Note that some camera
specifications abbreviate megapixel as \"MP\".


-- Determine Image Use

Now then, how many of those pixels do we need? The first task in answering this
question is to determine how we intend to use the images. We are mainly concerned
about uses that require a high resolution digital photo. Putting a photo on the
computer\'s screen requires a low resolution image, so any camera is sufficient, if
this is our only intention.
The most common need for high resolution photos is to print or develop pictures. Let
us then focus on putting pictures on paper to answer our megapixel question.

Having ruled out extreme sizes, we have the three most common photo sizes to
consider. According to online photo labs, the following minimum resolutions are
sufficient to produce high quality prints:

* 4 x 6\": 640 x 480 pixels (0.3 megapixels)

* 5 x 7\": 1024 x 768 pixels (0.8 megapixels)

* 8 x 10\": 1536 x 1024 pixels (1.6 megapixels)

From personal experience I would double those megapixels to ensure a nice looking
print. Otherwise they just don\'t print as well as you would expect.

For more information on digital photography please visit
http://www.digitalphotography4you.com


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Contact Details = R&R InfoSystems, Co.,
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email: admin@randrinfosystems.com,
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Eugene, OR 97401