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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1 & DMC-FT1 Underwater Digital Camera Review

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Lens Cleaner To Clean Your Camera Lense?

July 2nd, 2009 admin 2 comments

If you want to clean your camera lens due to the lens has too many finger prints, you must not use your nail polish to clean you camera lens at all.

This week I’ve been asked a barrel of questions! I’m very lucky to have such a loyal group of subscribers. One the questions I was asked was from John about digital camera cleaning and what sort of digital camera cleaning equipment did he need (a different John to last week).

Well don’t do what I did before I knew anything about photography. It’s embarrassing, but I’ll tell you anyway. I was standing at a beautiful beach one balmy, Aussie summers dusk and there was a rush of wind. It blew sand all over me and onto the digital camera. Knowing ‘zip’ about digital camera care and maintenance at the time I cleaned the lens with the corner of my t-shirt and went on my merry way.

When I arrived home that night I took out my digital camera to download the images to the computer and out fell small particles of sand onto the floor. I thought “what the..?” I was surprised to see so many grains. I took off the lens cap and there were sand granules embedded into the edge of the lens. And that particular digital camera lens has never retained the same sharpness and clarity since my various trips to the beach. After a while the sand granules on the lens caused the annoying lack of quality that I previously had. I’ve done a lot of dumb things in my time with digital photography from not knowing any better, and that was a doozy.

Thankfully I learnt and am now teaching digital photography. Camera care and cleaning is a regular thing you should give your digital camera. And the best way to clean a lenes? Carefully! This is why you should never take the edge of your t-shirt and clean it because unbeknownst to you, you could be leaving tiny trails of grit and dirt on the lens causing scratching.

Remember all digital camera lenses are made of glass. The clarity and sharpness you get in your digital photos relies heavily on the surface of that glass to be squeaky clean. Nothing must get onto the lens if you can help it. Its pretty hard to keep a lens 100% clean because of dust particles floating around in the air, but you can get as close to100% as possible with some handy digital photography camera cleaning equipment.

There are a couple of ways you can clean your digital cameras lens, and that’s with a bit of spit…..just kidding. Seriously, you must use a proper lens cleaning cloth. You can use cleaning fluid too. This can cause some streaking across the lens if you use too much. One drop on your lens cleaning cloth in a gentle circular motion with a will get most marks off a lens.

In popular digital camera stores you can buy a pretty good lens cleaning fluid. It shouldn’t be more than $20-$25 depending on where you go. The digital camera lens cleaning fluid is an alcohol-based fluid that, just between you and me, I wouldn’t take my digital camera out without it. The digital camera lens cleaning fluid is ideal because it’s not solely for dust but accidental finger prints and other unplanned smudges.

Don’t forget about your other digital camera filters too. You can have a polarizer on the front of your lens which will most likely need a clean if you’re using your digital camera a lot, or if you are using it outside for a day. You’ll be amazed at how dirty the lens can get. If you’re not sure, grab a lens cleaning kit from your nearest digital camera store.

Personally I have several lens cleaning cloths, lens cleaning fluid, a brush with an air capsule to blow of dust then brush, cotton buds to get into the crevasse and a small leather pouch I keep it all in. The leather pouch is actually a small ladies purse. I bought it for the size and the durability and protection it gave my cleaning equipment.

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How Do I Upload Pictures From A Panasonic Lumix Camera On My Computer?

June 30th, 2009 admin 4 comments

I bought my granddaughter a Panasonic LUMIX TZ50 but, we can not upload the pictures on my computer. We have used the usb cable but the computer will not recognize it.

If you’re anything like TechDad Central, you have way too many cables lying around the house … and you can never find the one you need when you need it.

This cabling conundrum has always been one of my biggest complaints in dealing with digital photography. I’m always searching for the connection cable to upload the pics from the camera. I usually get frustrated and just leave them on the camera until the media card gets full and then finally spend the time cable-searching.

I recently saw an advert for the WIRELESS Panasonic LUMIX TZ50 and went into immediate “search and panasonic tz50s front 001 How Do I Upload Pictures From A Panasonic Lumix Camera On My Computer? acquire” mode to get my hands on it. What exactly was a “wireless” digital camera and would this be my cabling panacea?

I’m not a digital photo snob so I won’t drone on about megapixels and the benefits of manual versus optical zoom. I can safely say that the LUMIX Z50 takes great photos, decent movies (in video mode, when needed) and has auto-stabilization to cancel out your usual shakiness. It’s an excellent digital camera

But that’s not why it makes TechDad Central’s “must have” list. It’s all about the wireless!

This camera includes an easy to set-up WiFi capability along with a free year’s subscription to connect via T-Mobile hotspots (that’s right …1 year for FREE). In practical terms this means that in my home or office, I simply upload my photos via the wireless network. I don’t even need to be near a computer to move the photos. On the road, any time I’m within the range of a T-Mobile hotspot I can upload the photos wirelessly straight from the camera.

The pics get uploaded directly to my Picasa Web Albums account and from there I can edit, catalog and distribute the photos to my heart’s content.

So no more cable safaris either at home or on the road … and one less cable for me to lose.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 12.1 MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.0-Inch LCD (Black)