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Digital Photography

Overview

This howto is about transferring, storing and editing digital photos on computers and other devices.

In digital cameras, including camera phones, photos are stored as files in either internal memory or a removable memory devices.

Howtos

  • Transferring photos
  • Editing photos
  • Storing photos

Background information

File Formats- Photos are normally stored in a digital camera as RAW image files. They are usually converted and transferred in one of three image file formats:

  • TIFF - an uncompressed image file format
  • PNG - a lossless, compressed image format
  • JPEG - a lossy, efficient compressed image format

Storage and Transfer - Cameras and phones can use one of several types of removable memory card. These can be read by USB card readers as well as in the camera or phone itself. Photos can be transferred to computers (or direct to printers) for editing and printing using cable or wireless transfer:

Type Standard Data Rate Range
Cable Firewire 400 400 Mb/s 4.5m
Cable USB 2.0 480 Mb/s 5.0m
Wireless Bluetooth 2.0 3 Mb/s 10m (Class 2)
Wireless 80.211g 54 Mb/s 30.0m

Data Rate and Range are maximums under ideal conditions