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The photographs shown in this example are, mostly, taken from a digital camera (in this case: an Olympus D-400 Zoom) and the digital image moved from the camera to the PC by use of a Camedia Floppydisk Adapter. Other photographs in SCScompA's examples are in the PC as a result of scanning the photograph. The following pictures default to digital camera origin and, if not, the shown picture will be identified as a scanned image. Scanned photographs are scanned at 300 PPI (Pixels Per Inch) or 100 PPI, and the chosen PPI will be identified in the comments for that particular image.
The following is aimed at showing examples of using the PC, digital cameras, and perhaps scanners, as part of home PC environment. Hopefully, the shown pictures will give you some ideas for your home use of PCs.
If you are taking a vacation in the future or otherwise have pictures you want to share with family/friends, the approach taken by this Web page (basic use of HTM tags) is an easy way to meet your aims. Remember, the HTM and images need not be put out on the Web to share with others: You could put the HTM file and the images into a file and send that file (either using a RW/CD, a ZIP floppy, a set of 3 1/2" floppies using hand-carry, snail-mail, or Internet transmission of the material) to your friends/family on their own PC.
If you include, also, a Word document discussing the material (for example, a travel or other journal you keep related to the images): Wonderful!
Contact SCScompA if you have any comments/questions regarding anything that is shown in this Web page.
The title, above, of this section of our examples this month may be confusing -- so, let me explain what I mean.
Here, in Raleigh NC USA, one of our museums recently had a photography exhibition of selected photographs from the National Archives.
The photos were displayed on an interior wall of our museum and as we viewed the exhibition we were allowed to take non-flash pictures of the displayed pictures.
The following are some of the "pictures of pictures" that resulted.
I have not taken the time to visit the National Archives' Web site (I assume they have one!) and, if they allow it: Request an online digital image of something in the archives (I am sure they have thousands if not millions of terrific photos). I am sure having access to the "original" photo in some way other than taking a picture of a picture shown on a wall would be wonderful -- but, as seen below, some of the "pictures of a picture" turned out quite well.
If you have a digital camera and are visiting museums or other exhibition centers: Don't hesitate to bring your camera and ask if they allow non-flash pictures to be taken. You might enjoy having the results for your own use to review/share with others at your convenience.
In any case, following is a selection of the photos taken during my museum visit.
I enjoy pictures/paintings/etc. of historical times and was pleased to have the opportunity to see some of the pictures from our National Archives.
Some of the people who helped during difficult times.
(Picture perhaps taken around 1942?)
Again, a person who helped during difficult times.
(Picture perhaps taken in 1930s?)
Building America.
(Picture perhaps taken in late 1890s, early 1900s?)
Again, part of Building America.
(Picture perhaps taken in early 1920s?)
Again, part of Building America.
(Picture perhaps taken in early 1900s?)
Note: The picture below is as it came from the camera. The next-shown picture is after I enlarged the photo slightly with PaintShop Pro. My camera is a maximum "quality" of 1.3 Megapixels. If I had used a camera with a higher number of megapixel support, the enlargement may have been improved than what I ended up with. Photography experts tell me that the "higher the number of pixels" supported by the digital camera allow you to enlarge the taken-picture with improved quality. I will try to get an example of this for an upcoming newsletter. Let me know if you have a comment on this topic and if you would be willing to share that comment if you send the comment to me!
The original picture was 510 pixels wide. This enlargement is 800 pixels wide.
Contemplating the future as well as the past.
This is an example of taking multiple images and placing them into one usable image -- and adding comments to the result. PaintShop Pro was used for this process.
I enjoyed the tour through the selected National Archive's photographs and when I get a chance I will check with their Web page if there is one! Let me know if you get to that Web page before I do!
In a totally different topic (from the above-shown pictures) this picture shows the first-of-the-Fall-in-the-Northern-Hemisphere-season baking efforts.
This picture was taken indoors with natural light.
I often, in these newsletters, try to show use of using different scanner / image options. I am not an expert in these topics, by any means -- and I am interested in your views on this topic.
In any case, as I mentioned a couple of month's ago in an earlier newsletter, I had to replace my scanner and I did that with a Microtek ScanMaker V6upl. The scanner and its support had an option I had not seen before: Scanning using "RGB 48-bit" support.
Although difficult to tell in the following two images, I find that using the RGB 48-bit Colors' support tends to produce sharper images than does the prior-but-still-support RGB Color support.
Let me know in your opinion if you can see a difference using Web access. If not, at least the pictures are (perhaps) worth a look!
Let me know if you have seen the following somewhere -- you probably have!
First, shown after scanned using "RGB Colors" at 300 pixels per inch. Then, resized to be 750 pixels wide.
Secondly, shown after scanned using "RGB Colors 48-bit" at 300 pixels per inch. Then, resized to be 750 pixels wide.
Let me know if you have experience with RGB 49-Bit support and what that means! Perhaps it is a topic for a future newsletter.
In early September, I played one of my favorite golf courses in North Carolina (USA).
The 18th completes a set of three fantastic finishing holes. All three are terrific driving holes that require well-placed shots to near-perfectly-placed greens. Gene Hamm, the golf course designer of this course, completed the design with wonderful/challenging final holes.
The following example uses a table-format for positioning the two-shown images.
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Let me know if you have played the above golf hole.
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I wish you well in your picture taking and travels or other activities -- and hope you share that with a journal and Web-type of presentation you share with family/friends.
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