You can create something new to bypass problems tha a old technology might create, yet the creation of new technology usually has increased downfalls and problems.
Digital camera technology vs. Traditional film based cameras
The old film cameras that every family use to have were bulky, could only take as many photos as the roll of film allowed and you could never be sure of how your photo would turn out until you got it developed weeks later. With digital camera technology you see yuor photo instantly, you can delte if you don't like it take another one until your happy. Digital cameras have the capacity to take hundreds of photos, and most likely you'll run out of battery before you run out of space.
How digital images can be stored, transferred and manipulated using other communications technology.
A digital camera is an electronic device used to capture and store photographs electronically in a digital format. You snap your scene and the digital image is saved to the wee memory card. You can then upload your images to your computer, and from there you can alter the image's size, colour, sharpness, the list is endless depending on your editing program (check the pictures down the sside of my blog that I edited). You can also upload and share your photos on a website such as flickr.com or even a blog based website such as bebo.com.
Ethical issues
As I explained in tutorial one blog, the ethical issues arise around privacy and confidentiality. Effectively a person whose image is captured in a photograph should have every right to teh confidentiality of that picture. But in the day and age photos are usually put on the internet with out a secound thought. However on some photo uploading websites or toher sites such as online communities, photos can be selected to be view either privately or by invitation.
Digital cameras and OTPersonally, I have rarely seen a OT use a digital camera in practice but I can imagine they could be very useful. A OT could take images of a person's home environment for housing mods or of equipment within the client's home. The camera could also be applied in getting clients, say at a day center, involved in activities, uploading the photos to a computer and showing the cliens and even alter the images with the clients.
About Flickr.com + another
Flickr.com is a photo and video storage website that allows you too upload photos and videos for free - on a basic account. If you want more, including more space to upload more items you pay a membership. You can oraganise, share and set tags to your images and it is also a way to keep in touch with family and friends. They can leave comments or tags to images and give feedback. Group can come together around a common interst e.g flowers or people can share their interest in photography and techniques used.
Another photo storage website - http://www.snapfish.com/
Difference between digital and optical zoom...
Optical zoom works like the zoom lens on a camera, the lens changes focal length and magnification as it is zoomed. This retains the image quality of the image. Digital zoom is where the image is just cropped and then enlarge to fill the frame - it is very easy to see the pixels and the image has poor quality.
Mega pixels...
Digital images are made up of squares called pixels. Though the picture looks smooth, it is made made up of millions of tiny squares. Megapixel stands for 1 million pixels. So a camera with 5 megapixels has 5 million pixels.
