Home
Pros  & Cons
Applications
Using
Images in Education
Animations
Panoramas
15 sec video
Scopes & Lenses
Macro
ESE
ESOL
Science Lab
Writing Applications
Math Applications
Lessons
Articles
Fun Projects

DrsCavanaugh
return to homepage

Advantages & Disadvantages


Advantages:

  • You and your student most likely already have them in your moblie phones
  • Speed of getting images
    Digital images are instantly available for output to print or digital video, or save as an image file.
  • Uses of the image
    Images can be actually inserted into numerous computer applications like printable documents or presentations
  • Ease of duplication
    Just copy a computer file or print as often as you like
  • Cost savings -- no film/no developing (film developing... what's that? - in olden days we used to have to develop the film through chemical processes just to see the pictures we had taken)
    The images are stored in computer memory or other digital storage. Pictures can be printed directly from a computer to a printer.
  • Control over images & quality -- software
    Software allows images to be changed, cropped, compressed, etc.

Disadvantages

  • Quality of image
    Few smart phone digital cameras produce slide quality photographs, but most do produce good resolution and are getting better all the time
  • You do your own processing work
    You can’t just drop it off and pick it up an hour later.
 

Digital cameras in education