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Should I buy a camera or a camera phone? review

Digital Living Not only do they have sensors with a high megapixel count, but they also boast other extras such as autofocus to help you avoid blurry shots, burst settings to capture a quick succession of action snaps, and preset scene modes.

Tags: compact, digital camera, lens, cameras

26 November 2007, 8:00

Which camera for family snapshots?

Digital Living If you can't manage the camera as well, you'll miss some great shots. Some cameras offer many different scene modes -- for landscapes, beach scenes, night shots, food, pets and so on -- and you choose the appropriate mode for the shot you're framing.

3 August 2006, 11:47

Become a camcorder pro

Digital Living His tracking shots of little Danny Torrance on his tricycle, peddling down the corridors of the Overlook Hotel are some of the most suspenseful scenes in the film, if not in cinema history. An effective Steadicam system is very hard to improvise...

29 June 2006, 16:02

How to perfect your pictures

Digital Living You can also create WMV-format slide shows, burn VCDs, and upload your shots to Adobe Photo Services. If you've just come back from the great outdoors only to discover your images have a bluish tinge, chances are that you took some indoor shots...

9 May 2005, 14:51

Better digital photos

Digital Living Night-time flash mode Use this setting for artistic shots. You'll get some absolutely great shots with artistic flair, and you'll get some failures. If you switch to shutter-priority mode, you can slow down the shutter speed to 1/30 or 1/15 second...

3 August 2006, 15:09

Festival photos that rock!

Digital Living You'll find that most people at festivals are so absorbed in their own experiences that they won't notice you darting around with your camera, firing off shots. It'll take some practise to locate the shutter button when it's hidden in a bag, but...

17 August 2005, 14:35

Halo 2 starter kit

Digital Living Aim for the headWhile we're on the subject, it's worth mentioning that practicing the black art of head shots is probably the best way to improve your skills at Halo 2. The drawback of the magnum is that it's harder to find and obtain ammo for, it...

13 July 2005, 16:38

Bluff it as a fashion photographer

Digital Living Here we're using Apple's Aperture software to compare various similar shots. For most shots, a crisp focus on the eyes is absolutely essential, so you should check this first. You can fire off a massive run of shots in the space of a few seconds...

10 November 2006, 15:23

Hollywood style for your home movies

Digital Living Some of the smoothest, most cinematic moves you'll ever see are dolly shots, where the director mounts a camera on a wheeled tripod and moves it toward or away from a stationary subject. How can you do it?

23 June 2005, 10:35

It doesn't have to cost a bomb to fix your pics

Digital Living With some experimentation, I have found that the features of certain shareware programs are more than enough for managing my images for sending via e-mail, making thumbnail pages for the Web, and cropping to change the framing of favourite shots.

Tags: plug ins, enhance, thumbnail, eye

9 May 2005, 15:12

Can compact cameras zoom during video?

Digital Living Instead, things are varied by editing together shots from different angles. My digital compact camera has video, but it won't zoom during filming -- very annoying! My son has a Sony T100 that does, but are there any others out there that will zoom...

Tags: shot, compact, tracking, zoom

31 October 2007, 15:28

Camera phones

Digital Living One of the reasons people leave their pictures imprisoned in their camera phones is that they're disappointed with the shots they've taken. While camera phones are now pretty ubiquitous, sharing the digital photos from a phone isn't yet the...

11 May 2005, 11:43

18 things to do with your old technology

Digital Living As with eBay, it's important to take good shots, preferably on a simple background such as a table or the floor. You might not know it, but you've got something very special in your home that could be worth money and could even save the world.

Tags: arrange, sends, waste, recycle

16 November 2007, 8:05