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Military Photography Sorry for my ignorance, but I am currently a Reconnaissance Marine. One of our missions is to photograph anything and everything that has tactical meaning in all lights and weather. We use, as a standard, a Canon S40 Digital Camera. This camera is specifically set up for out transmitting equipment and can't be substituted. My question is, what are some simple ways to maximize the camera's abilities? What standard amateur book can I read to make me more effective? What, if anything is a must have item to take out with (please keep in mind I have to pack in and carry everything I use). Thanks for everybodies help.
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doug Nelson |
If detail is important in your pictures, you'd want the best possible image this camera can produce. Use the highest quality setting and the lowest degree of JPEG compression. If that file size is too big for your transmitting capability, singly, or as a burst of several pics, then go down in quality until you can fit them in, but not so much as to deteriorate the image. You won't be able to see how good the image is until you can sit down and see them on a monitor. How well they might print could be a consideration for archiving them, or maybe using them in a briefing. You know what can happen in computer crashes, or storage card corruption; they're all gone. A print will give you another way to save and use it. Scantips.com has good explanations of resolution and JPEG compression. I was in 'Nam. Like you, I couldn't be concerned with what everyone thought of why I was over there. We simply did our jobs well, because it eventually got us home. You guys take care of yourselves and each other out there.
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Canon's website has a S50, so I'm guessing yours is similar to that, maybe just an earlier version. First thing you and everybody should do is read the manual and learn about everything you can about the camera. What each button does, which button you use to change whatever. Any book that covers basic shooting as in what effects light levels have on shooting should help you out. Kodak has a book, (kodak's guide to basic photography is the title I think) Even "photography for dummies" is available. But one thing you can take with you is a table top tripod. Since you have to be in all kinds of light, it's a tripod that's a few inches high. So it would be easy to pack, and you could set it on the ground, or a rock, and take pictures if the light level is low, to prevent blur from holding the camera with your hand. And spare batteries. And canon also makes a waterproof case for the S50, but I don't know if it can be used with what you have.
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