Digital Photography: Ag to Si

"Whether one uses digital processes or chemical processes has little to do with the value of what is created. Value is decided by the viewer, process is for the creator to take satisfaction in."
Keith Sutter  in  Vision

Digital Cameras

1. Digital Cameras  [TASI]
2. Digital Cameras   Image-Acquire.com
3. Digicamhelp
4. Steve's Digicams
5. Digital Camera Buying Guide
6. Digital Camera Resource Page
7. Digital Camera Reviews and News
8. Digital cameras and digital photography online review guide
9. Digital Photography Review
10. PC Magazine:  Snap Happy: 21 Digital Cameras
11. eCoustics.com Digital Camera Reviews
12. Rob Galbraith's Digital Photography Insights
13. Imaging Resource
14. The future of digital cameras
15. Gizmodo : Digital Cameras Archives
16. Digital Photo Guide   [PDF - 547Kb]
17. Digital Cameras - A beginner's guide   [photo.net]
18. Digital Cameras - Unbiased reviews, prices and advice from Digital Camera HQ
19. Mobot
20. SCANBUY
21. P a p e r C l i c k
22. The Real Reason Mobile Phones have Cameras
23. EASYSHARE Z7590 Zoom Digital Camera

Digital Film / SiliconFilm / Memory

1. How Flash Memory Works
2. CompactFlash Association Homepage
3. Digital Film Comparison: Compact Flash
4. Smart Media Features and specifications
5. SD Card Association
6. xD-Picture Card
7. Flashcards.co.nz
8. Siliconfilm   [digital inserts for 35mm film SLR ]
9. Multimedia card striving to become universal memory
10. PhotoRescue   [The product]
11. Flash Card Recovery and Image Recovery   [Company to do it]
12. Hitachi Microdrive overview

File Formats

1. Graphics file format
2. Format Descriptions for Still Images
3. Graphics File Formats FAQ
4. Understanding Image Files and Compression
5. Graphics on the Web   [W3C]
6. GIF
   1. GIF    [From Wikipedia]
7. PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
   1. PNG   [From Wikipedia]
   2. PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Site
   3. PNG (Portable Network Graphics)  W3C
   4. Portable Network Graphics
   5. Rich Franzen's PNG Gallery
8. JPEG
1. JPEG   [From Wikipedia]
2. JPEG Homepage
3. Independent JPEG Group
4. JPEG Compression: The real story
5. JPEG JFIF   [W3C]
9. TIFF
   1. Tagged Image File Format  [TIFF]
10. RAW
    1. Digital Camera RAW Image Formats
    2. CCD-Raw
    3. rawformat     A site dedicated to an open imaging RAW format standard.
    4. Schewe primer on Camera Raw   [pdf]
    5. Adobe Camera Raw 2.x   [Real World Digital Photography]
    6. Jpeg vs Raw the real story
    7. RAW File Processing
    8. Bibble Labs - Professional Photo-Manipulation Software
    9. Adobe Camera Raw
    10. Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP
11. HD Photo ( Windows Media Photo)    .hdp or .wdp
    1. HD Photo Feature Specification 1.0
    2. Bill Crow's HD Photo Blog
    3. MSU Windows Media Photo and JPEG 2000 Codecs Comparison
12. CIFF (Camera Image File Format)
13. File formats - DPOF / EXIF - tutorials
14. PRINT Image Matching - Digital Cameras    (P.I.M)
15. DCF  Design rule for Camera File system
    1. Design rule for Camera File system (Version 1.0) PDF
16. Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
    1. Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
       1. Metadata for Creative Professionals [PDF]
       2. 7 Steps to understanding XMP Metadata  [Flash]
    2. EXIF  Exchangeable Image File Format    EXIF Image Viewer
    3. The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC)
       1. IPTC Core Schema for XMP
    4. Digital Image Submission Criteria (DISC)
    5. AdsML
17. Exif
1. Exchangeable image file format (Exif)
2. Description of Exif file format   [TsuruZoh Tachibanaya]
3. Reading Exif Image Data
4. Digital Camera Exif Library
5. Digital Camera Extended File Information Viewer
6. Foxbat’s ExifView Windows Shell Extension Utility
7. Exif.org   Digital Camera   Samples Images   Exif Information 
8. Viewer:   Photo Studio     Exif Image Viewer
18. Adobe Digital Negative Format (DNG)
    1. Digital Negative Format
       

Sensors

1. Understanding How Image Sensors Work
2. What is the difference between CCD and CMOS image sensors in a digital camera?
3. CMOS Gate Demonistration
4. Vision Sensing: CCD, CMOS
5. CMOS Digital Image Sensors
6. Fujifilm Super CCD:   image  [.jpg 100kb]
   

Digital Imaging Information

1. Digital Imaging Information     ClarkVision.com
2. Digital Camera Image Quality

Resolution

1. Image Resolution
2. Understanding Resolution
3. Understanding Digital Camera Resolution
4. Counting Megapixels — All Megapixels Are Not Created Equal —
5. The Myth of DPI
6. B & H Resolution Chart
   

Exposure

1. Understanding Histograms
2. Reading and Using Histograms
3. Goldilocks and the Three Histograms

High Dynamic Range [ HDR]

1. High dynamic range imaging
   • Tower Bridge Sacramento
   • New York City at night HDR.jpg 
   • Tone mapped image of the Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest
   • Colour Explosion.jpg
   • Set06-DSC07722-a.jpg
   • An example collection of High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from John Miles
   • Examples of tone mapped HDR images and Exposure Blending
2. Tone mapping

Lenses

1. A Tedious Explanation of the f/stop
2. Lens Focal Length
3. The "Multiplier Effect"
4. Liquid lenses for camera phones

Power/Batteries

1. Batteries for AA-compatible digital cameras

Photography

1. photo.net
2. photoSIG
3. Digital Photography For What It's Worth     (dpFWIW)
4. Digital Photography vs Traditional Photography
5. Kodak     All about digital    Digital Learning Center (DLC)
6. Fuji Digital Products   -   What's Gone Wrong?
7. All Digital Photography - lessons and tips on using digital camera.
8. BetterPhoto.com -  Basic Photography Tips
9. TAKEgreatPICTURES.com - Digital Photography
10. Shooting-Digital.com
11. Outdoor Photographer
12. Analog Photography Users Group
13. 10 Basic Shooting Tips   Digital Imaging Basics   [Imagedancer]
14. Rick's Complete Guide to Digital Photography
15. Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer: Digital Imaging in Optical Microscopy
16. AnaBuilder   [make stereoscopy easy ]
17. Photography From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
18. One hundred Years of Film Sizes
19. 28MM.ORG   [an online photography magazine]
20. Photographica   [An Online Photo Community and Photography Gallery]
21. ClarkVision.com      Digital Imaging Information     Film versus Digital Information
22. rec . photo . digital
23. ZoneZero: From Analog to Digital Photography
24. ShortCourses
25. The Luminous Landscape
26. Vision
27. Utch's Online Photo Gallery     Utch's Online Shop      CafePress.com
28. Computer Arts Online
29. Lonestardigital.com - Digital Photography Information Site
30. Digital Photography Review
31. Photo.net
32. The Imaging Resource
33. Macro Photography: macrophotography.org
34. Proposal Aims to Ease Digital Photo Printing
35. Copying Family Photos       Digital Cameras and Genealogy
36. Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) PIMA15740 or ISO 15740
    1. Picture Transfer Protocol
    2. PIMA 15740 Picture Transfer Protocol Home Page
37. Taking pictures with blueprint paper
38. Fine Art Photography from Colleen Henderson
39. David Seawell Portfolio
40. 'Slide Show': Lighting Up a Lost Era
41. Piccadilly Posh

Software

1. Adobe     Photoshop     Elements     David's Page
2. ACD Systems    Going Digital -A Guide To Digital Photography [PDF]
3. AKVIS  Image processing and photo restoration software
4. Bibble Labs - Professional Photo-Manipulation Software
5. Picasa   [free from Google]
   1. Reduce Image Sizes Using Picasa    video
6. PHPoto
7. Photodex
8. PhotoGia
9. Photo Mechanic
10. FotoTagger   [Image Annotation Tool]
11. FotoStation Classic
12. FotoTrafiX
13. ACDSee 7 for Windows
14. BreezeBrowser Pro
15. Downloader Pro
16. The Panorama Factory
17. iView | Media Management Made Easy  
18. FotoStation
19. Gallery :: your photos on your website
20. Express Digital
21. Photo Finale : Digital Photography Software Products by Trevoli
22. palmOne - Personal Solutions - Snap Pictures & Create Digital Photo Albums
23. Compupic
24. Qimage
25. Genuine Fractals
26. FlashFixers    [ image recovery software ]
27. StudioLine Photo Basic
28. Microsoft
    1. Microsoft Digital Suite
    2. Microsoft Digital Image Pro
    3. Fix Photos with Image Editing Software
    4. XP
       1. Digital photography with Windows XP
       2. Explore Digital Photography with Windows XP
       3. Whitepaper: Viewing and Organizing RAW Images in Windows XP  [2.2 MB Microsoft Word file]
       4. Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP    5.8 MB
       5. Professional Photography with Windows XP
    5. Microsoft:   Digital Imaging Homepage   Digital Imaging Products
    6. PhotoDraw 2000 Support Center
    7. MS Photo Editor, Wherefore Art Thou?
    8. Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    9. About Picture Manager - Help and How-to - Microsoft Office Online
       

Images

1. David's Photography
2. David's Mblog     Textamerica.com    Search Moblogs By State
3. Kodak Lossless True Color Image Suite
4. Ark: Image Archive MIT + Friendly Planet
5. freelargephotos.com
6. Smithsonian Photography Initiative
7. Virginia Tech Imagebase
8. Cambridge in Colour - Photography by Sean T. McHugh
9. file magazine : a collection of unexpected photography
10. Special Collections University of Washington
11. Venture School Digital Photography   Student Galleries
12. CivilWarPhotos.Net
13. Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page 
14. Pittsburgh City Photographer
15. Jim Dugan, photographer, of Camden, Maine
16. VII Photo Agency
17. Getty Images - Gettyimages.com
18. Colorado Portraits
19. Reuters Pictures
20. Reflections in a Chrome Toaster
21. Steve McCurry
22. Jock Murphy    
23. Photos by Chuck Gardner
24. MacroNYC: Close-Ups of the big city.
25. THE DIGITAL RAMBLER Recent digital photographs by Rick Doble
26. Roger Spencer Photography
27. PHOTOLOGY - Henri Cartier - Bresson
28. The Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection
29. Jeremy's Picture Gallery
30. Photos by Chuck Gardner
31. seite7's Detroit slideshow on Flickr
32. bigempty.com: tim gasperak
33. The Snowsuit Effort - photographs by Ryan Keberly
34. Mary Ellen Mark Photographs
35. :: King County Snapshots - A Photographic Heritage ::     Resources
36. The Photographic Collection of the Library of Virginia
37. Internet Archive: Moving Images Archive
38. Navy Online Library of Selected Images
39. FREE Photos - Digital Images from TriVista
40. Color Images in Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
41. Original Wilson Bentley Images
42. Those of mine I like mostly
43. Ken Storch Welcome
44. The Great Mirror
45. Photography Art   [40 images in your own private gallery ]
46. How to Use Photoshop Elements 2 Photo Gallery
47. Steffi Lewis ~ Photographer     Steffi's World
48. Wisconsin Historical Images

Other

1. How to Build a Panoramic Tripod Head
2. NASA Is Not Altering Mars Colors    NASA: Calibration Targets
3. HowStuffWorks: How Digital Cameras Work
4. HowStuffWorks Page on the Eye and Vision
5. Kodak Digital Learning Center
6. Digital Photography Now
7. Tech Depot: Flash Memory Digital Camera Capacity Chart
8. A-Digital-Eye.com
9. Digital Photography Review: News, Reviews, Forums, FAQ
10. InfoPool: Digital Cameras
11. PC Photo Review
12. Digital Camera Resource Page   Links
13. Inanycase.com
14. Fujifilm Online Photo Services    DigitalCameraDeveloping.com
15. Imaging-Info.com
16. How Do I Do That?
17. Creating a Web Photography Gallery    [Michael Reichmann]
18. Computer-Darkroom
19. Piezography®BW Printing
20. Practical Guide To Interpreting RGB Histograms
21. B L U E P I X E L
22. hackdiary: A Semantic Web shoebox - annotating photos with RSS and RDF
23. A Semantic Web Shoebox - Annotating Photos with RSS and RDF [PDF]
24. Your Rights and Remedies When Stopped or Confronted for Photography  [PDF]
25. Releases
    1. NPPA Independent Photographer's Toolkit: Photography Releases
    2. The Model Release: A Primer
    3. Basic Model Release
    4. Say Cheese! Putting Pictures of People on the Library's Web Page

Free OnLine Classes / Tutorials / Training

1. Digital photography tips and techniques: How to take better photos
2. HP Online classes - digital photography
3. Digital camera tutorials and photography essentials - DCVIEWS
4. Digital Photography Tutorials   -   Cambridge in Colour
5. Jodies Coston's Free Online Photography Course
6. Free Digital Photography Tutorial Site

Printing

1. prints are memories
2. Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium Drives Mobile Printing Standards
3. PMA Report: Photo Printer Makers Jostle for Position  
4. LightJet 5000 Wide-Format Printer
5. Digital Print Order Format
   1. DPOF- Digital Print Order Format
6. PictBridge
   1. Print Directly from a Digital Camera
   2. PictBridge
   3. Canon add PictBridge support
7. DotPhoto Offers Right-Sized Digital Photos
8. MyPublisher     
9. Personalized Photo Quilts
10. PhotoStamps
11. PaintedSnapshot.com    Examples
12. TreasureKnit Photo Blankets
13. Photo Cake, Pictures on Cakes, Photos on Cakes
    1. Icing Images
    2. PhotoFrost Manufacturing   [photo cake Icing Sheets, edible ink cartridges, frosting sheets]
    3. Tasty FotoArt    [Edible Ink, Edible Paper, and Edible Photo Toppers]
    4. Stew Leonard's Photo Cakes
        

On-Line Processing / Storage

1. ApplePrints
2. Clubphoto
3. dotPhoto
4. eyespot  [dhark]
5. ez prints
6. Flickr - Photo Sharing    [David's Flickr]     [Everyone's photos]
7. FrogPrints [ New Zealand]
8. Fuji Photo: Fujifilm.net.
9. Iron Mountain | Online Backup
10. Kodak Mobile
11. Mpix.com - Online Digital Imaging Service
12. myImager.com
13. myCapture -- Event Publishing
14. Ofoto    [Kodak]  
15. Picnik
16. PictureTrail 
17. PhotoAccess
18. Photobucket
19. PhotosOnline
20. PhotoZou
21. Shutterfly
22. Snapfish
23. Snipshot:  [Edit pictures online]
24. Sony ImageStation
25. Walmart.com: Photo Center
26. Webshots
27. Zoto :: Photo Sharing - Photo Hosting
28. Discussion of photographic prints on canvas
29. Create a picture postcard for a fun way to stay in touch.

Photo-Sharing Sites / Online Photo Albums

1. Can online photo sharing be free of charge?
2. The Photo-Sharing Bubble
3. Amiglia [built by families for families]
   1. dhark Hark Family Album
4. JAlbum   [free web photo album generator]
5. !Advanced Album Editor
6. Bubbleshare
   1. Building a Narrated Slide Show on the Web
7. Club Photo
8. Epson PhotoCenter
9. FamilyBuzz.com
10. Fotki.com
11. Flickr - Photo Sharing
    1.  David's Flickr
    2. mattbratt39's photos
    3.  glassdog
    4.  jorb's photos
    5. Eastern Trigram
12. fotoinsight.com  [EU]
13. image gallery
14. ImageShack
15. MorePhotos: E-commerce Software for Professional Photographers
16. Multiply    [Share your photos, video, music, blogs and more]
    1. davidhark
17. MyEasyPics.com
18. MySharedPhotos.com
19. MySpace.com
    1. davidhark
20. PBase Photo Database - Photo Hosting - Photo Sharing - Web Photo Galleries
21. Porta photo album generator
22. Sharing Online
23. photo.net
    1. dhark 
24. Photobucket      Image Hosting and Online Photo Albums
25. Photo-Guide.com
26. Picnik
27. PictureTrail
28. Slide
29. Yahoo! Photos
30. YouTube
31. BubbleShare

Photo Blogs

1. David's Mblog     Textamerica.com    Search Moblogs By State
2. Introduction to Photoblogs and MoBlogs
3. Picture Pages: Web sites for people who hate to read.
4. Photoblogs.org
5. Fotolog.net
6. Is photoblogging good for photography?
7. Setting Up A Blog     Blog Software     Free Image Hosting   [about.com]
8. D.M.O.Z: Weblogs: Tools: Publishers
9. Digital Photography Blog
10. Daily Dose Of Imagery
11. Photoblogs.org - The Photoblog Resource
12. picturephoning.com
13. Tokyo Tidbits
14. photojunkie
15. NewBay - Mobile Phone Blogging Software
16. Ten Years Of My Life
17. Catherine Jamieson
18. Quarlo
19. Bryan Harrington

Camera Phone / Picture Phone

1. Reiter's Wireless Data Web Log
2. Reiter's Camera Phone Report
3. Camera Phone Zone
4. Wirelessimaging.info
5. picturephoning.com
6. Camera Phones: The New Brownies
7. Tips to consider when choosing camera phone
8. Tips for using camera phones
9. Top 10 tips for great camera phone pictures
10. Camera Phone Tips - Taking Great Photos with your Camera Phone
11. 2-Mpixel era [camera phone]
12. Mobile Imaging: Photography's Next Revolution
13. The Camphone Revolution
14. Mobile snaps
15. Cam phones spread new brands of mischief   [cnn]
16. Sony Ericsson SO505I camera-phone
17. Verizon: Learn More About Picture Messaging
18. Mobile Tech News
19. Cool Camera/Phone Combos
20.  wireless-doc.com      Tips    Digital Photos Using The TREO 600 Camera Phone   Treo 600
21. picturephoning.com
    1. Cell Phone Printers
22. dotPhoto
23. Tips for camera phone users
24. Why 3G Networks Will Accelerate the use of Advanced Camera Phones
25. Moblog or Mobile weblogs
    1. Weblogs get upwardly mobile
    2. From Weblog to Moblog at Internet Alchemy
    3. moblogging.org - Mobile blogging resources
    4. Joi's Moblog
    5. hnbp://mobile
    6. Hiptop Nation

Image Processing Workflow

1. IMatch: Solutions for Digital Image Management
2. Understanding DSLR Workflow
3. Step-by-Step Processing of Photographs using Photoshop
4. A Fast-Start Introduction to Photoshop For Photographers
5. Photoshop Curves — A Command Primer —
6. Don't Lose Your Camera Phone Photos
7. CIP4 Website    JDF

Digital Collections

1. David's - Managing and Organizing Digital Photographs
2. Cornell Digital Initiatives
3. DSpace: Durable Digital Depository: MIT Libraries
4. NYPL Digital Gallery
5. Greenstone Software
6. Coppermine Photo Gallery
7. Greenstone Digital Libary Software (Open Source)
8. University of Utah    exhibits
9. Digital Preservation
10. University of Oregon Libraries Digital Collections     Historical Photograph Collection
11. SEPIA (Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access)
12. Preservation issues in digitizing historical photographs
13. JEFF TRZECIAK, Wayne State University, Detroit, one of Library Journal's
    2004 "Movers and Shakers":   1   WSU Virtual Motor City   Bibliography   (3 or 4 books listed on this looked interesting)
14. CONTENTdm
15. Document Imaging and Document Management by Archive Builders  
16. American Memory from the Library of Congress
17. Prints and Photographs Reading Room   (Library of Congress)
18. Cataloging & Digitizing Toolbox
19. Digital Imaging Standards   [Smithsonian Institution]
20. Thesaurus of Graphic Materials
21. Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers   [LOC]
    1. Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements Printed Illustrations
       

Image Management Software

1. ACD Systems
2. Adobe® Photoshop® Album 2.0 Starter Edition
3. Breeze Systems   
   1. BreezeBrowser
   2. Captioning Photos using Breezebrowser
4. CaptionEdit
5. DigitalPro2
6. OneReaction PhotoBlog Software
7. FotoStation
8. iView   
9. Streetprint.org
10. Managing Your Digital Images
11. Photosynth  [Microsoft Live Labs]
12. Picasa   [free from Google]
13. Riya (a Photo Search Engine)

Color Management / Calibration

1. Color Management for Photographers
2. Introduction to Color Management    Resources
3. Monitor Profiling and Calibration
4. Colorvision - Color Management and Color Calibration
5. Windows Image Color Management
6. Fuji: ColourKit Profiler Suite for Color Profiling
7. Charles Poynton - Color technology
8. Color management notes
9. Images & targets
10. Colour and Resolution Targets    [TASI]
11. The Secret to Good Scanning: why and how to calibrate your scanner.
12. IT8 target
13. Calibrating Your Monitor
14. Color Calibration on the Cheap

Tagging / Meta

1. Tagging Is It A wiser way to navigate the Web
2. Slide - New and Popular Tags
3. International Press Telecommunications Council   IPTC

PhotoCD

1. The Kodak Photo CD
2. Ted's Unofficial Kodak Photo CD Homepage

Scanners

1. A few scanning tips
2. A few scanning tips - Scanner Help - Basics 101
3. Scanning Film and Prints
4. Building a megapixel digital camera from a flatbed scanner
   

Books / Magazines

1. Digital Photography For Dummies by Julie Adair King
   1. Book Companion Site
2. The Textbook of Digital Photography    ShortCourses   Books
   1. ShortCourses.com: A Complete Guide to Digital Cameras and Photography  [Free Book - PDF]
3. Photography In the Digital Era
4. Adobe Photoshop for Photographers
5. Digital Outback Photo
6. ::: PEI Magazine :::
7. Photography Magazines - AllYouCanRead.com
8. Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
   1. IT Conversations: Philip Greenspun
9. The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures   [free pdf]

Newsgroups

1. rec.photo.digital
2. digital-photo-editing · Editing Digital Photos with Photoshop

Video

1. Motionbox

Taking Pictures

1. Top Ten Digital Photography Tips
2. Kodak's Top Tips for Camera Phone Pictures
3. Kodak's Top 10 tips for great pictures :
   1. Look your subject in the eye
   2. Use a plain background
   3. Use flash outdoors
   4. Move in close
   5. Move it from the middle
   6. Lock the focus
   7. Know your flash's range
   8. Watch the light
   9. Take some vertical pictures
   10. Be a picture director
4. 10 Basic Shooting Tips
5. Composing Pictures Tips
6. Lexar | Digital Photography | Tips | Techniques | Lessons | Tutorials
7. Kodak Gallery
8. New Media Musings: The right to photograph in public
9. Glossary of Common Digital Photography Terms
10. Support
    1. DIY Bottle Cap Tripod
    2. Bottle Cap Tripod for Digital Camera by Yodobashi (6 Colors)

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