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Beau Sharbrough
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RootsWorks: Digital Cameras

Family Historians are going digital. Big time. They aren't using the same cameras, film, or developing services any more.


Your basic Digital Camera

This page supports the articles in the Ancestry Daily News, published on 06 and 19 February 2003. 
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More Information

Click on the images at the left to view some examples of digital photography vs scanning.

 View a comparison of scans and digital photos of a birth certificate.
 View a comparison of scans and digital photos of a photo.

Storage media

 View some information about different types of storage media.

Size matters

 View some examples of 1, 2, 3, and 5 megapixel images.

 



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This Olympus slides open and closed


The famous Nikon CoolPix 990.

A compact flash card


A SmartMedia "card".



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