Photo Printing Revolution

How to buy a digital camera

There are many brands of digital cameras available in the market today. Not all of the people are aware of the terminology related to digital cameras. Let me clear one thing, if you are looking for a gadget which can shoot both still pictures and videos with the same device, then you must know one thing that a digital still camera is a dedicated device for still photography and a digital video camera is a dedicated device for shooting videos. You can shoot video with a still camera and vice versa, but the quality won't be much good, because both of these devices are optimized for specific picture or video shooting. Following are the points which you can use as a guide for buying a digital camera.

1. BRAND
Brand loyalty is very personal. As a professional photographer I would recommend a camera from Nikon or Canon stable.

2. MegaPixel
Most of the digital camera users think that a higher megapixel digital camera will give higher picture quality. Basically megapixel only decides physical size of the image. Most of the pictures shot are printed at 4x6 or 5x7 inches size. It may be noted that 4x6 inches pictures prints as 2 megapixels and 5x7 picture prints at 3 megapixels. You can read more about resolution at http://www.printbucket.com Now the question arises, is a 5 megapixel camera in a mobile phone is equally good as a standalone still digital camera. I would say NO. There are many other things that play a major role in the quality of the picture. Most important is the dynamic range of the device to capture detail. Dynamic Range is the capability of the device to capture the details in highlight part and shadow part of the image.

3. Zoom
Digital still camera offers two types of zoom. One is the optical zoom. This is the real zoom. You should only look for the optical zoom.It gives you the real magnification. In compact digital cameras, zoom is denoted by "x" e.g. 3x or 4x. This is the magnification factor. If the focal length of the lens is 27mm to 81mm, then the zoom factor will be 81 divided by 27 and that comes to 3x. The other zoom in the camera is digital zoom. Practically it is of no use. I always advise people to switch off this option in the camera. Digital zoom works inside the camera after you have taken the picture. Internal software of your camera has many algorithms writen for digitally magnifying the image.

4. Scene Modes
Nowadays all the cameras gives the choice of using various scene modes. These are the preset settings in a still digital camera for specific shooting requirements. Some of the scens modes are as night snapshot, portrait, landscape, kids and pets, fireworks, foliage etc.

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Recovering a deleted picture from a memory card

You were on a vacation and shot wonderful pictures at the beach. But your young one accidentally deleted the images from your digital camera's memory card. But there is no need to panic. Your pictures can still be recovered. You should only take care that, as soon as you know something wrong has happened, immediately stop using that memory card. If you still continue to use your memory card, the chances of recovering the images from your memory card are very less. There are many softwares available in the market for recovering the images from the memory card. Sandisk's rescue pro deluxe is one of them. In most of the cases, it can recover the images succesfully from the card.
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MegaPixel ! Myths demystified

Many people ask me, what is megapixel? As the name suggests 'mega' means 10 to the power of 6 and 'pixel' is the smallest picture element in an image. So 1 megapixel is 1000000 pixels. So does it means that more megapixels in a camera will produce much better images. If I were to answer this question, I would say yes and no. Why 'Yes', because more the pixels in an image, more the detail in an image. With more megapixels, you can blow up the picture to a bigger size with more sharpness. But if you were to take only regular size prints (4x6 inches), then you only require 2 megapixel image. For 4x6 inches image, there is no fun of clicking at 12 megapixels. This would only add the bigger filesize and more time for transfering the images to yur computer. But again if you like to tweak your images before printing, then clicking on a higher megapixel helps. Say, you are shooting a wildlife, but you don't have high zoom lens in your camera, then shooting with a high megapixel camera will help in cropping the image later on the computer while keeping the sharpness intact. But how many of you crop the images on the computer. So I would suggest 5 megapixel and above for shooting everyday pictures.

For more about resolution, you can read resolution dymystified on www.printbucket.com

Personalized Photo Gifts

We are live for about a month. We have received overwhelming response from people all over the country. Our mail box is flodded with lots of feedback. Lots of good suggestions have been given by the people. A lot of requests have been made to start "personalized gifts". There is good news for everybody out there. We have started working on personalized gifts. Soon you will be able to order Photo Calendars, Photo Greeting Cards on www.printbucket.com .
We once again thank you to all of you for all your co-operation and overwhelming response.
Regards
Bharat

Bulk Image Uploader

We are using state of the art technology for uploading multiple pictures in a single go. The module used for this is called Image uploader by Aurigma. ActiveX control is required to be installed on your machine to use Bulk Image Uploader. You don't have to install anything, the http://www.printbucket.com/ website will automatically install this control on your machine. This is required to be installed only one time, when you first use http://www.printbucket.com/. Simply follow the steps below to install Bulk Image uploader.

Image Uploader ActiveX control is necessary to upload your pictures quickly and easily.You will be able to select multiple images in user-friendly interface instead of clumsy input fields with Browse button.

• When you sign up for a new account you are asked to enter the name of a new album. Just after submitting the name of the album, you are taken to the image uploader page. Now here, you have to wait for few seconds to few minutes depending on the speed of your internet connection. After some time you will see a yellow bar at the top of the browser as shown below asking you to accept to install ActiveX software. Simply click on the yellow bar and click on the "install activeX".

After clicking on the "install activeX", let your browser download the software to your machine. After downloading, which may take from few seconds to few minutes, you would be presented with a dialog box, asking you to install the "Aurigma Image Uploader". Simply ckick on the install button, and you are done.

Note:

You can install Image uploader at any time you like. Simply sign in to your www.printbucket.com account. On reaching your albums page. Select any of the album, to which you want to upload images or create a new album. Then click on the "upload photos" button. Then follow the above steps.

If you have any queries regarding this, feel free to contact me at service@printbucket.com

Cheers

Bharat

Welcome to PrintBucket

Welcome to PrintBucket.com.
There is good news for everybody. We had been working on PrintBucket for quiet some time. Now its live. One can now order photo prints while sitting at his leisure at home by using our website www.PrintBucket.com