Contents: Superconducting electronics, digital photo, and home automation.

Digital Photo Page

This page presents the results of my attempt to find the cheapest way of making digital photos and still keep them as much as possible to look like professional ones. The reader couldn't find here the comparison of the different types of hardware or software, but there are a few useful hints how to get and keep the best quality of your pictures. Finally you can download the freeware "Slides" program, which allows you to build and view your own slide presentation. This application offers an easy manipulation of the large files (more than 4 Mb jpeg), automatically build small preview thumbnails for them, and provides a tool for selection the viewable area of the image to be optimally fitted to the computer screen.  Now "Slides" supports JPG file EXIF extension.   EXIF tags like 'Author',  'Subject' 'Comment', 'Date image taken' and others are kept in  jpeg file. 'Slides' offer  easy tools to modify image EXIF information  for multiple files. Going to different time zone and forgot to adjust time at your digital camera? - Use slides to offset date image taken. Your spouse was using another camera?  - use slides to rearrange images in Slides show by date taken (Jpg only). Please mind, if you open JPG file with any editing software,  edit image and save it, you always loose a little image quality. Changing JPG file EXIF tags is also required to open and save image file but fortunately it does not affect image buffer itself. Nevertheless 'Slides' always sent a copy of the jpg file to the 'Recycle Bin' folder before changing  EXIF tags. If image does not have thumbnail(small version of the image) 'Slides' upon clicking reference  or file automatically generate it. JPG files keep thumbnails as a part of EXIF header,, but other types of image files will have keep thumbnail in reference (see 'Slides' help). Thus it is important to save slides document to save thumbnails for later use.  There is also a link to very smart shareware software (see bellow) from  ACD.  

Downloads

Slides - free software to make slide presentation

Shareware file viewer and slides organizer from ACD