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Megapixel Exposed

by Norma

What is a megapixel any­way?

We have a great cam­era; a Nikon D-​90 just chock full of megapix­els. For each of those invis­i­ble megapix­els, we have a mil­lion invis­i­ble pix­els. I would rather not see a pixel. See­ing pix­els in Pho­to­shop gen­er­ally means I’m attempt­ing to use too low a res­o­lu­tion graphic at too large a size. Images are made up of tiny (pixel) dots. Vis­able pix­els are yucky! They make my graph­ics ugly.

Lately megapix­els are a hot topic in our house­hold because my hus­band, the hiker, wants a com­pact cam­era to take on the trails. But he also wants sharp, clear pho­tos with rich, true col­ors. To get those high res­o­lu­tion pho­tos to print at almost any size, for any pur­pose, you need scads of megapixels.

Luck­ily my husband’s can fit 14 mil­lion pix­els into his shirt pocket. Now his new dig­i­tal camera’s 14 megapixel sen­sor awaits his click to launch them into brief life as an elec­tronic signal.

Did he really need so many megapix­els? Prob­a­bly not. Every­thing we read says a cam­era with around 5 megapix­els will be suf­fi­cient for a home cam­era. He bought this cam­era for its excel­lent lens, and the excess megapix­els came along for the hike!

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Pic­tures of the fall col­ors in our yard were taken with our 12 and 14 megapixel (right side) cameras.

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A good business experience

by Norma

Busi­ness plan saves the day

BusinessSuperHeroIn the fall of 1996, our graphic design com­pany took a hit from the explo­sion of inex­pen­sive desk­top pub­lish­ing soft­ware. It seemed that every company’s switch­board oper­a­tor was knock­ing out newslet­ters and brochures while never miss­ing a call. No one appeared to care about dou­ble spaces after peri­ods or saw a dif­fer­ence between inches and true quote marks.

At the same time, our city rede­vel­op­ment agency was look­ing to develop tourism. They needed accom­mo­da­tions for the flood of tourists sure to head this way.

Oppor­tu­nity was knock­ing or maybe, rear­ing its ugly head? I talked it over with my hus­band. “This is too hard. We need new com­put­ers. We need new clients. Let’s apply for rede­vel­op­ment funds to open a bed and break­fast,” I said. [Read More]

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