Digital Cameras and Genealogy

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Example Photos

Old photo in a photo album
The image on the left is a portion of the entire photo showing the actual size of the digital camera image. The image on the right side is the entire photo compressed down to 400 pixels in width (the original was taken at a resolution of 2048 x 1536). This was part of a photo album page, the field of view is about six inches wide by four inches high.
Canon Powershot G1 - 1/40 sec, ISO 50, f.2.2, 10.8 mm (35mm equiv = 52.4 mm), auto-white, indirect daylight.


Portion of an old birth certificate
A small portion of an 1861 British birth certificate shown at the actual digital photo size. The original was photographed as two halves (left & right) at 2048 x 1536.
Canon Powershot G1 - 1/60 sec, ISO 50, f.4.0, 12.5 mm (35mm equiv = 60.7 mm), auto-white, indirect daylight.


1886 Photo
Three zoom levels of an 1886 photo Christmas card. The section on the left is the original digital photo size with two scaled down images of the photo on the right side.
Canon Powershot G1 - 1/50 sec, ISO 50, f.2.5, 10.8 mm (35mm equiv = 52.4 mm), auto-white, indirect daylight.



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