Digital Photography: From Camera to Printer, Print to Computer, Videotape to DVD, and More! [Paperback]

David D. Busch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 3, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0131472194 | ISBN-13: 978-0131472198

Digital photography equipment industry continues to grow, with estimates of$12 billion in annual sales by 2008. Sharing photos online is estimated tocontribute to 72% of that growth (InfoTrends 2003).This book shows readers how to do a variety of digital imaging tasks including:equipment optimization (see list on last page); how to capture better videofrom all forms VHS and digital camcorders; getting best quality fromtransferring video; migrating from VHS to digital; editing; and choosingequipment to best suit your needs.

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From the Back Cover

Get great results with digital photography and video--and have more fun doing it!

It's easy: Digital Imagery will teach you everything you need to know, step-by-step. You'll find easier ways to do what you want... fast answers to your digital imaging questions... and great new ideas for using your digital photos and video. Want to copy your old videotapes to DVD? View photos on your TV? Scan and fix your old snapshots? Edit your own movies? Print brilliant digital prints? Use digital imaging in your business or career? You can do it all... and this one-stop, easy-to-use guide covers it all!

• Capture better video with your VHS, VHS-C, Hi 8, or digital camcorder
• Transfer your video and photos to CD or DVD with the best possible quality
• Convert your entire tape library to digital formats that won't deteriorate
• Edit your videos with titles, effects, transitions, music, and more
• Take better photos: action shots, close-ups, vacation pictures, even pet photos
• Edit your pictures: easily fix mistakes, create collages, and add special effects
• Share your photos online, in digital slide shows, albums, or even on your TV
• Scan your old snapshots, enlargements, and slides with your scanner
• Make vivid prints for sharing or scrapbooking
• Choose the best computer and software for all your digital imaging projects
• Pick the digital camera, camcorder, scanner, or color printer that's right for you
• Make the most of your HP Pavilion or Compaq Presario PC, HP DVD Movie Writer, HP Photosmart camera, HP Scanjet scanner, HP Deskjet printer or HP Digital Media Receiver

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Preface

You’ve taken your last snapshot, and grabbed your last video clip! This book will help you move to the next level, using digital imagery to create exciting images of your favorite photo subjects and events. Whether you’re looking to create picture-perfect stills or transfer your videos to neatly-edited, professional-looking DVDs, you’ll find everything you need to know in this book.

This book is your introduction to all the exciting things you can do with images, from your camera to your printer, from your print to your computer, and videotape to DVD…plus a lot more!

About the Book

Images and sound have always fascinated us, because of their power to preserve memories, tell stories, and convey information quickly and memorably. Digital imagery takes traditional photography and video to the next level, giving you the power of the computer to shape pictures and sound into the exact finished product you want.

This book is organized into easy-to-digest bites, with stand-alone chapters you can read in any order to learn exactly what you want to know about computers; capturing, editing and transferring videos; shooting digital still photos; sharing pictures; and making prints.

The great Hewlett Packard products are used as examples throughout this book, because HP is the only manufacturer that produces every component (other than video cameras) that you need to enjoy digital imagery. These include media-ready computers, digital cameras, scanners, DVD burners with built-in video capture capabilities, and printers. However, if you use components from other manufacturers—say a different computer or DVD drive—everything in this book will still be useful to you.

So, if you want to know how to outfit your computer for best results, you can start out with Chapter 1, “Your Digital Imagery Computer.” If you’d rather jump right in to learning how to capture or transfer your existing videos to digital form, you can skip ahead to Chapter 2, “Preparing to Capture Your Videos” or Chapter 3, “Transferring Your Video to Computer.” Need to edit your videos? Chapter 4 shows you how.

Perhaps still photos are more your cup of tea. You can learn how to choose a digital camera in Chapter 5, and discover some ways to take better pictures in Chapter 6, “Going Beyond Point-and-Shoot.” Chapter 7 will get you started editing your digital photos, and Chapter 8 offers tips on how to share them with others through email, Web pages, or digital photo albums.

If you want to digitize your existing snapshots so you can edit them in your computer, Chapter 9, “Grabbing Images with a Scanner,” reveals the secrets of the HP ScanJet line. The company’s other claim to fame, printers, is the focus of Chapter 10.

Even if you purchased this book because you wanted to learn just one thing, say, how to transfer VHS videos to your computer, I hope you’ll explore everything that digital imagery has to offer. Still photos, videos, prints, and online images all provide you with different ways of enjoying and sharing the sights and sounds that make your life interesting.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the folks at Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, including executive editor Jill Harry, production editor Kathleen Caren, and the panel of reviewers. Thanks again to my agent, Carole McClendon, for putting this all together.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (October 3, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131472194
• ISBN-13: 978-0131472198
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,571,435 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #81 in Books > Computers & Technology > Digital Photography & Video > Camera Guides

More About the Author

With nearly 1.5 million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling author of camera-specific guidebooks, and the originator of popular series like David Busch's Pro Secrets, David Busch's Compact Field Guides, David Busch's Guides to Digital SLR Photography, and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides.

Most of his hugely successful books for Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, and Panasonic digital cameras are the top-selling guidebooks for their respective camera models. His advice has been featured on NPR's "All Tech Considered."

Busch's dozens of other books devoted to digital photography include David Busch's Digital Infrared Pro Secrets and Mastering Digital SLR Photography. As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, he has illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. Busch has operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photographs and articles have been published in magazines as diverse as PhotoGraphic, Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He's also reviewed digital cameras for CNet Networks and Computer Shopper.

As a writer, photographer, and contributing editor for ten magazines, he has more than 130 books and 2500 articles to his credit. A PR consultant for Eastman Kodak Company's photography divisions for nearly 20 years, Busch has published photography articles under his by-line in Popular Photography & Imaging, PhotoGraphic, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer and other photo magazines. His photos have appeared on the covers of magazines, and in both print and television advertising.

The graduate of Kent State University operated his own photo studio and was a principal in CCS/PR, Inc., one of the largest public relations firms based in San Diego, working on press conferences, press kits, media tours, and sponsored photo trade magazine articles. In addition to Kodak, CCS photography clients included Hewlett-Packard. He sold his interest in CCS in 1992 to become a full-time author, photographer, and reporter.

Since then, Busch has become one of the leading photojournalist/authors in the United States. He has had as many as five books appear simultaneously in the Amazon.com Top 25 Digital Photography Books, and when Michael Carr of About.com named the top five digital photography books for beginners, the #1 and #2 choices were his Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. Several of his digital imaging books have sold in excess of 50,000 copies.

Busch was a featured guest speaking on digital photography on Toronto's Breakfast Television show in 2005, was the keynote speaker at the Dayton Computerfest, and has been a call-in guest for 22 different radio shows nationally and in major markets, including WTOP-AM (Washington), KYW-AM (Philadelphia), USA Network (Daybreak USA), WPHM-AM (Detroit), KMJE-FM (Sacramento), CJAD-AM (Montreal), WBIX-AM (Boston), ABC Radio Network (Jonathan & Mary Show).

His work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, German, Italian, French, and other languages. his web site is http://www.dbusch.com.