July 2008 Archives

Several recent experiences have caused me to have concerns about quality. Editing chapters for book to be published soon, smart clothes and wearable technology, a major difficulty has been image quality too much use of digital cameras without the users understanding that it is always best to use as higher quality as possible. This is inevitably against the background of manufacturers saying you can take 1,000s of pictures on a 1Mb card yet I would normally take about 39 on same sized card! The beauty of digital is that can use a card again and again so why take poor quality pictures? Leave your camera on high quality or better still RAW. It is always time consuming or occasionally impossible to reshoot so better to do it right first time, unfortunately this is something that atcaeologists seem unable to do if the recent database for bioarchaeology looking at bones is anything to go by. Even the simplest of proper photographic set-ups could have achieved good results instead of out of focus or images with knsufficient depth of field. Again another example of the need for photography to be a key skill addressed in science degrees.