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Short Courses: Digital Cameras and Digital Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
This page on shortcourses.com provides links that will answer all of your questions regarding digital cameras and digital photography. Some topics include: using your digital camera, editing digital photos, choosing a digital camera, and...
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Digital Photography Preview

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital Photography Preview is a website that includes news, reviews, a timeline, a buying guide, galleries, forums, a glossary, and much more dealing with digital cameras and photography.
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A Large Format Photography Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource explains all about large format cameras It explains what it is, how to use it, the advantages, (and disadvantages), of it, the cost, developing processes and much more. Many links to sites to give in-depth information on large...
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Nikon Usa: Digital Slr Cameras

For Students 9th - 10th
Nikon USA offers many digital camera, from the very simple ones to extremely powerful and advanced. Includes images and information on the different products.
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Cambridge University: Digital Photography Techniques

For Students 9th - 10th
These techniques on digital photography are presented in three primary areas: depth of field, dynamic range, and field of view. A link to digital photography tutorials is also provided.
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Photography tips.com: Digital Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PhotographyTips.com offers an excellent and detailed definition of digital photography and many links to more useful information on the topic.
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Internet Brothers: Digital Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
InternetBrothers.com's "Digital Photography, Instant Gratification" site offers numerous tutorials, tips, and advice for digital photographers, from beginners to more advanced.
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The Franklin Institute

Daguerreotype Cameras

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Daguerreotype camera. This particular apparatus on display at the Franklin Institute was made in 1839, by Joaquim Bishop. Included on this site are activities for the classroom and resources for students to explore.
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Photonhead: Photographic Concepts and Tips

For Students 9th - 10th
Photonhead is complete with a beginners guide to photography (covering the camera itself, camera modes, film speeds, and more), a digital camera buying guide, photography tips, a SimCam, and information on photo editing.
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Digi Cam Help: Learn About Digital Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore a complete instructional guide to digital photography. Included are glossaries, tips for shooting animals, sports, places and events.
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
American Experience offers a comprehensive look at George Eastman and his development of photography. Included are a timeline, biographies of important people in Eastman's personal and professional life, discussions in the history of...
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New Orleans Kid Camera Project

For Students 9th - 10th
New Orleans Kid Camera Project is a not for profit public art project that puts cameras into the hands of the youth of the city for them to then present their world and their art to the world on the internet.
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Cambridge University: Understanding Digital Camera Sensors

For Students 9th - 10th
This helpful tutorial on digital camera sensors is divided into sections including Bayer Demosaicing, Demosaicing Artifacts, and Microlens Arrays.
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Cambridge University: Camera Metering Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
This helpful tutorial on camera metering and exposure is divided into sections including metering options, when to use partial and spot metering, center-weighted metering, and exposure compensation.
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Museum of the Moving Image: Optical Room

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a tour through the history of moving images from the earliest times into the mid-1910s. The tour begins with pre-cinema devices and practices, including shadow plays and optical toys, and covers film and photography pioneers and...
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Focus on Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages include the kinds of information typically covered in a basic photography course, including common features of digital and conventional cameras, photographic composition, types of lighting, and recommendations for evaluating...
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University of California

Multimedia Reporting & Convergence: Digital Cameras

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete tutorial on digital cameras. Camera settings, battery types, memory cards and more are presented in a learning format.
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The Daguerreian Society

For Students 9th - 10th
A great resource for students or teachers interested in the history of photography, specifically the earliest method, the daguerreotype, of the 19th century.
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The Kodak Girl Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A delightful salute to women in photography. Includes history and archival photographs.
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Catching the Light: Astrophotography

For Students 9th - 10th
Author and astrophotographer, Jerry Lodriguss, offers up tips, techniques and various images that he's taken both with and without the use of digital enhancement. An amazing amount of detail is provided to explain his approach towards...
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National Press Photographers Association Online

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Press Photographers Association serves to promote photographic journalism. Members come from both still and electronic photographers, as well as editors, students and other associated organizations. Photographs play a major...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Magic Lanterns, Magic Mirrors

For Students 9th - 10th
Like fun house mirrors, motion pictures over the past one hundred years have reflected, challenged, influenced, and altered our visions of ourselves and the world in which we live. This virtual Exhibition was produced by the Photographic...
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Who Made America?: George Eastman

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick "snapshot" at the life and worldly contributions of George Eastman. See why he was chosen as one of America's great innovators and better understand how his photography processes transformed our society.
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George Eastman Museum

Discovering the George Eastman in Me the Legacy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
There is much to gain from looking at the life of George Eastman. These guided activities will help you and your students come to know the man he was and appreciate him and many others who have impacted our world.