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Nikon Coolpix 775
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Useful Resources
Choosing a digital still camera
Camera Review Websites
Free
- Joel Graffman's Easy
JPEG Printer is a fast way of choosing traditional print paper
dimensions and printing your JPEG
- Michal Kowalski's EXIF
Viewer is more than just a viewer. EXIF is a standard of encoding
information into JPG files. Digital cameras encode lots of info like F/Stop,
Shutter Speed, Data and Time of Shoot into the JPG. EXIF Viewer shows you
all the information you want and also reads extended Canon and Nikon
parameters. Not only that, it can perform lossless image rotation. A Must
Have and it's free.
- jpgQ
is a tool to report what such and such a jpg file was compressed as.
Matching the compression as you save will reduce image degradation. The
whole mediachance
website is worth visiting - to see their tools and also their information.
- RAD
Video Tools - free convertor from Quicktime
.mov (created by Coolpix 775) to
.avi (useable for creating VCDs, editing etc...). Then you can use Boomer
(paid software) to convert your .avi to flash .swf and stream it from your
website!
- JPGVideo
- free .avi movie maker - reads in JPEGs of the same size and makes a movie out
of them.
- ClipLinkViewer
takes the .avi, .mov, .dv, .mpg, .mp4 files in a folder and shows them on
the screen sequentially.
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TIM USB Digital Camera Transfer Assistant
apparently works like the image transfer program that came with your digital
camera. But it has lossless image rotation as well.
- JPG
Wizard - lossless rotation of JPG images and red eye reduction - free service
- JPG
Cleaner - freeware - reduces the size of processed JPG files.
- Cam2PC
- freeware - A small program that helps one transfer pictures to the PC. It is targeted for
digital cameras (and card readers) that appear as removable devices in Windows
and are assigned a drive letter (eg. F:)
- Digital Image Recovery - the image recovery tool for digital cameras
- Remember that if you have Microsoft Office - pretty
widespread nowadays, you would have a quietly unannounced program called
Microsoft PhotoEditor. Some people neglect to install it on their hard
disks. It works with .bmp, .tif, .jpg, .gif and does size, contrast,
brightness and colour conversions. It's fast and simple. You can't edit the
picture - no paintbrushes or pencils / pens but for what it does, it does
well.
- I have a Canon Bubble Jet S400SP printer. The freebie /
limited features software that came with the Nikon 775 digicam, my previous
Epson Ink Jet were pretty ho hum. However, the Canon Easy
PhotoPrint is a gem. It's main job is to allow you to select and print
images. It allows you to select one or more jpg files, it allows you to dial
in different number of copies for each file and it allows you to do one per
page, two per page and also "slide table" strips, using multiple
jpgs to fill the whole sheet of paper.
Unfree
- Sooner or later, you will want to get a powerful editor to
make "creative" manipulations to your images - the big boys are
Adobe Photoshop, JASC Paintshop
Pro.
- I'm really impressed in mediachance's
Photobrush - it is low cost and it seems functional, purposed for digital
photos.
- Paessler's
Photomeister seems pretty cool as well - it outputs to .pdf without
needing Acrobat Writer, to Palm .pdb (includes a small viewer app), does
rotation..., produces screen savers.
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