Digital Imaging on a Shoestring

I came across this article from about 12 years ago, Digital Imaging on a Shoestring and love the required specs for a PC or Mac; 8 to 12MB of Ram will be enough! Todays Macs come with 4GB as standard and upgrade to 16GB so they have roughly a thousand times more memory! However they were enough for me at the time.

I can't actually remember where I was when digital imaging became a force to be reckoned with, but I don't think it was in 1998, the year of the article. I can remember my first digital camera, a Fuji FinePix 4800 from Currys in Folkestone that cost over £500 and had 3 megapixels. It was made of an all metal body and designed by F.A.Porsche who designed the 911.

The Golden Rule of always working from a copy still applies today as does always backing up.

Finally I like the part where a 640x480 pixel image can be printed at 2.6x2.0 inches on paper at 240ppi, or use a higher resolution image in the first place. The image above was taken using my Fuji in February 2002 at 1.1MP and I recently managed to print it and others at 8x6 inches and was very happy with the results...