He Takes Purty Pictures Too

My guru, Computer Ed, is pretty handy with a camera too. He has a good post on the sea change that has taken place in the world of photography with the conversion from film to digital media. You camera buffs (and even those who aren’t so buff) will find his thoughts worth reading and some of his suggestions worth emulating.

Other signs of the times:

• The Dell desktop computer that I recently purchased has a media card reader which can transfer photos, video, data and music from thirteen different types of media cards.
• I spend my day typing and reading entries in a completely paperless computerized medical record system. There is a special mode to view scanned images and digital ophthalmic photographs which my technician shoots and transfers to the digital patient record in a matter of seconds. Fifteen years ago I was fumbling around with paper records and slides of patients’ eyes which kept getting lost or damaged. Also back then, I couldn’t type worth a lick. Now, thanks to on-the-job training, I type about a gazillion words per minute and I’ve got the carpel tunnel syndrome to prove it.
• They use to say that “the eye is the window to the soul.” Nowadays, it’s the key to the front door as well. I plan to weigh in on the implications and ramifications of iris scanning and other biometric technologies in a future post.

In the meantime, enjoy Ed’s post and “purty pictures” and then grab your digital point and shoot this weekend and make a few of your own.