Digital cameras are one of the results of technological advances made in the last several years making our life a little simpler. Instead of the long process of taking pictures, turning your disposable camera or the film in for processing, waiting for it to return, and checking your photos to see if they turned out you can have your pictures in minutes. The digital camera makes it possible to snap the picture, download it to your PC and print. If you do not like the shot you took, you can take another and another until you are happy with the photo.



One of the innovative new cameras that make this possible is the Powershot SD770. This camera which allows you to create all types of wide angle views with the Photostitch software, which by the way comes with the camera. If you love to edit your photos frame by frame this is the right camera for you because there is no intra-frame compression.

The size of the files is another good feature for editing later. They run approximately 19MB for every 10s clip. The digital camera has certainly made capturing your family and friends at their best (or worse) much easier. Of course, it can be set to many video qualities as most can. This will allow variety of the file size to your specific requirements.

The Canon SD770 has very clear and succinct audio which is another plus for capturing friends and family at outings, birthday parties or the holiday season. This is a camera with very friendly recording options. The battery adds to this function because once charged it holds up very well and still shows a full charge after shooting over 150 photos.

When it comes to digital cameras or digi-cams as they are called for short, the Powershot SD770 is a camera with a silent time-lapse mode. This permits the cam to make a frame every one or two seconds. When recording this quickly, the file size of 50 MB per minute when played back equals 15 minutes of real time recording.

The Powershot SD770 has the benefit of face detection. This is great for making sure you get a face shot. By pressing the shutter halfway, you set the camera which draws a square around the faces. The auto white balance is another feature that works really well on the Canon SD770. The white of porcelain actually looks white under a fluorescent light. Earlier cameras often made white items under these lighting conditions have an orange tint.

The digital cameras of today, such as the Powershot SD770, is so much more advanced than the film cameras of yesterday. To think that one small memory card can hold thousands of photos until you are ready to transfer them to your computer for viewing is absolutely amazing. The compact cameras we use are fitted with zoom lenses for capturing far away shots. The use of digital cameras is even incorporated into vehicles for the safety of police officers as well as being used for evidence.

One thing it might surprise you to know about the image quality of the Powershot SD770 is the sharpness. It is very sharp and has been compared with a camera which cost $5,000 and it had a sharper image than the more expensive camera. For $300 you can get a Canon SD770 with a sharper image than a camera which costs much more. This is the face of technology today. The digital cameras available now are much less expensive than they were even 5 years ago. As with most advances in the electronic field, the more advanced products get, the cheaper the ones that are already being manufactured.

Digital cameras are being put everywhere from PDAs to telephones to the smallest security devices. The technology we have presently is making such strides that one wonders what will be next. This concept was the brainchild of Eugene F. Lally, who worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was the first to publish how to generate still photos in a digital realm by using a mosaic photo sensor. As a method to supply astronauts with navigation info onboard the space shuttles during mission, this was the prerequisite to the digital camera.

An interesting fact that you may find amusing is the first recorded attempt at creating a digital camera was by an Eastman Kodak engineer named Steven Sasson. This was in December, 1975. The cam weighed in at 8 pounds and took black and white images which it transferred via recording to a cassette tape. The cam took 23 seconds to get the first photo. Although not intended for mass production, this was the first created digital camera.