First Generation
In 1998, Mr. Greenwood first started using digital camera, Victor GC-S1. It only had 300,000 pixel resolution. He acquired it appreciating long focus. But he quit using it due to very short battery life.
Victor GC-S1
Second Generation
If you buy 3.1 million pixel digital camera, you can select any resolution depending upon your purpose. If you buy 128Mb memory chip and set your camera at 1280 x 960 resolution with standard compression, you can store 352 pictures on your chip. You can select any chip size from 8 up to 128Mb.
Mr. Greenwood normally use1280 x 960 resolution. For web site, He further compress down to 20kb/picture level by trimming and increasing compression level using editing software.
If you set your camera at 2048 x 1536 resolution and print on A4 photo quality paper, it looks as though real chemical photo.
There are many kind of digital camera.
Mr. Greenwood used Sony digital camera DSC-F505V owned by his daughter. But it was too heavy and only used for short period.
Third Generation
Mr. Greenwood the aquired Sony digital camera DSC-P5. It's weight is 180g. This camera can also take video of 320 x 240 pixel MPEG1 compression over 21 minutes on 128Mb chip. Mr. Greenwood started using it in 2002.
Sony digital camera DSC-P5
Purpose |
resolution (pixel) |
pixel/picture (million pixel) |
kb/picture at standard compression |
kb/picture at fine compression |
640 x 480 |
0.3 |
68 |
166 |
|
100 x 150 mm size printing (Post Card) |
1280 x 960 |
1.2 |
363 |
666 |
200 x 300 mm size printing (A4) |
1600 x 1200 |
1.9 |
533 |
1000 |
Larger size printing |
2048 x 1536 |
3.1 |
890 |
1600 |
Color Modification by Adobe Photoshop Elements3.0
As the color quality of Sony digital camera DSC-P5 is not satisfactory, Mr. Greenwood is using Adobe Photoshop Elements for grading up color expression.
Forth Generation
In October 30, 2006, Mr. Greenwood falled into the salt water in his marina and damaged Sony digital camera DSC-P5. He has taken 13,199 pictures with it over 4 years.
Optio W20
He decided to buy Orinpus Optio W20 with 1Gb SD card. He learned that it has a good color expression from Ron who used Optio S-40.
2002/5/23
Rev. October 31, 2006