Additional Resources

Photography with a Digital Camera (55801)

More Info

• Digital Cameras -- A beginner's guide
• A Short Course in Using Your Digital Camera
• Compact Flash and SD Cards
• Telephoto Tips
• What is... Noise?
• What is... ISO?
• Digital Camera Buying Tip From An Engineer
• About Digital Camera Sensors
• Understanding Sensor Issues
• Sensor Cleaning Methods
• Sensor Cleaning Demo (video)
• Sensors with Heat Issues
• Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (Russian photographer)
• More about Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
• What Can Happen When You Aren't Very Very Careful

Digital Camera Review Sites

• Imaging Resource
• Steve's Digicams
• Digital Photography Review
• Digital Camera Resource Page
• Comparometer

Digital Darkroom: Photo Organizing and Editing Software

Free (and Easy)

• Picasa -- Google's photo software (FREE!)
• FastStone Image Viewer (FREE -- for personal use)
• Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 (FREE!)
• IrfanView (FREE -- for personal use)

Pretty Easy

• Roxio PhotoSuite 8 (about $30)
• Corel Photo Album (about $30)
• ACDSee (about $50)
• Professor Franklin's Instant Photo Effects (about $60)

Lots of Features (and a high learning curve)

• Photoshop Elements (about $100)
• Paint Shop Pro (about $90)
• ULead PhotoImpact (about $70)

Printing Software (supports color profiles)

• Qimage (about $35)
• Picture Window Pro

Online Photo Processing Services

• Shutterfly
• Snapfish
• Kodak EasyShare
• TJ's Camera (local)
• Walgreens (local)
• Costco (local -- you must be a member)

Buy Stuff Cheap

• Software Blowouts
• DealNews

Shared Photography Websites

• Pbase.com
• SmugMug.com
• Flickr.com

Digital Photography Contests

• DPChallenge
• Digital Image Café
• Daily Digital Photo

Explanations for the Technically Inclined

• Depth of Field Calculator
• Circle of Confusion
• Circle of Confusion (Wikipedia)
• Focal Length Multiplier
• Using Printer Profiles with Digital Labs