Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Term 3 Session 1 Digital vs Analogue

(UPDATE Aug 2012 - I have removed images that won't display correctly but will leave the text here as reference)
Welcome all to term 3.

These are notes from the board.

A Vinyl Record is Analogue storage and a CD is digital storage


Film photo is a record of the "Shadow" on the film
the digital photo is made up of pixels (Picture Elements)







Megapixels is a way we describe the number of tiles or pixels that make up the picture.


The more pixels there are ... the bigger the picture can be printed ... but...
At 300dpi (Dots Per Inch) a 2 megapixel image is 5" x 4" .... see below
(Also See .... Earlier notes here)


Screen resolution and displaying digital photos.
To display the "Actual Pixels" or a "Full Size" image on a computer screen
we get the following.


For further info see ... (This Link Here) ...  (And Also Here)

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