Ikelite Underwater Camera Housing for Canon PowerShot A710 Digital Camera

This compact digital housing is molded of corrosion free clear polycarbonate, itis virtually indestructible with heavy duty walls that allow it to operate safely to 60m (200 feet). The housing provides controls for all camera functions. A flash diffuser is included to aid in improving lighting quality when the camera's built-in flash is used to illuminate subjects underwater. For optimum lighting underwater an optional DS series Substrobe is recommended. The DS Substrobes are brighter, recycle faster and offer wider coverage. Being farther from the camera lens, the optional DS Substrobe aids in reducing the illumination of particles in the water, thus helping to eliminate backscatter. Optional EV Manual Controller provides 10 power settings with any Ikelite DS SubStrobe without requiring any fiber optic "sync cord" nonsense. An optional #9523.31 Release Handle and Tray are required to attach SubStrobes. The Release Handle allows easy attachment and removal of SubStrobe mounting arms at the touch of a button. The port on the housing is threaded to accept the 67mm threaded wide-angle conversion lenses offered by Epoque and Inon.

Point and shoot cameras can provide really sharp images if you use them correctly. But for many digital images taken with a point and shoot, main subject sharpness -- or lack thereof -- is a real issue.

Most all point and shoot cameras have an auto-focus feature, which is really awesome... most of the time. The lack of sharpness problems arise during certain conditions, one of which is when trying to shoot your subject a little bit off-center. Shooting off-center is a widely-used practice that can add style, interest, and professionalism to an otherwise ordinary image. In blunt terms, shooting off-center can be A Very Good Thing.

A loose example of this is when your subject, your best friend for instance, is standing off to either side in front of a waterfall, or an old covered wagon. You'd like to capture both your friend and the background but when your photo is finished, your friend is out of focus.
That happened because the point and shoot camera's viewfinder was not placed on the most important part of your composition, which in this case was your best friend, but was instead placed on the background where it automatically focused.

Fortunately, there's a really simple work around to this problem that anyone who can hold a camera can pull off. Point and shoot cameras feature the ability to lock, or pre-lock, the focus at any point during the process of composing a photograph.

Basically, pre-locking focus means that you force your camera to focus on a specific object in the composition and remain locked on that distance until you actually snap the picture.
To pre-lock, simply place the viewfinder focus point on the desired object -- in the example above it would be your best friend -- and press the shutter halfway down. At that point you should see a green glow in the viewfinder eyepiece that signals your focus is locked (if it glows steadily, that means your focus is locked; if it winks off and on or doesn't light at all, you need to try again).

Now, keeping the shutter pressed halfway, move your camera until the exact composition you want appears in your viewfinder -- in the example above it would be when your best friend is positioned on one side or the other of the image and the waterfall or covered wagon is roughly in the center.
Next, hold your camera very steady and press the shutter the rest of the way to actually capture the shot.

No matter what composition you're going for, it's always important to be mindful of where your focus point is. Taking a moment to do so can save a good many of your photographs.

Final tip: Once your focus is locked and you're keeping the shutter pressed halfway, the focus won't change at all. If your subject moves or if you take a step forwards or backwards, your subject will not be in focus any longer and you'll need to do the whole process again.

Marie Walker runs a blog called Pictures, Words, and Ordinary Life about simple digital photography for ordinary people (read: amateurs). She often features tips and tricks for composition as well as tutorials for Adobe Photoshop that make the most of point and shoot digital photography. See examples photos about locking focus here: Pre-focus and auto-focus

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The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Companion

Through several easy-to-follow lessons, this handy book offers a complete class on digital photography, tailored specifically for people who use the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D. This is not your typical camera guide: rather than just show you what all the buttons do, this book teaches you how to use various Digital Rebel XS/1000D features to make great photographs -- including professional-looking images of people, landscapes, action shots, close-ups, night shots, and more.

The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Companion is the perfect reference for your camera bag. Written by professional photographer Ben Long, it's packed with creative tips and technical advice to help you capture stunning pictures anywhere, anytime. With this book, you'll learn how to:

• Take creative control and go beyond automatic settings
• Learn the basic rules of composition
• Capture decisive moments, including fast-moving objects
• Discover ways to use a flash indoors and outdoors
• Learn about different lenses, and the best time to use them
• Understand the options for shooting RAW, and whether it's right for you

There are plenty of photography books, but only this one teaches you how to take high-quality digital photos using the exact camera model you own. Plenty of full-color examples show you what's possible once you graduate from snapshots and focus on the pictures you really want to take.

So you have just bought yourself a nice new shiny iPhone or iPod Touch and you want to download some cool games? To save you hours of surfing I have chosen the top ten games for iPod touch to bring you the very best of the bunch and a list of the most well loved games you can download and play in your ipod touch. Here you will find a comprehensive list of iPod Touch games. I have scoured the internet for the best iPod touch games and have listed them in their respective categories.

Latest ipod touch games:

Scramboni is a multiplayer online game that requires you to unscramble words by clicking on tiles that appear on the screen. You earn points for guessing the words correctly with an additional bonus for being the quickest one to submit the correct answer.

Stunt Car 3d Game : The objective is to stay on the ramp and drive as fast as you can.

Features:

- Smooth customizable real-time 3D vector graphics
- Time based physics simulation
- Two spectacular tracks (more to come)
- Easy and Hard difficulty levels
- Accurate timers and lap counter
- Hall of Fame (saved in Safari)
- Optional Frame rate display

Hammer Tap Game :

An infuriating and addictive game. You have 60 seconds to tap as many moles as you can. Imagine your fingers are hammers. Moles popping up from their holes and teasing you.

Columns Game :

A combination of Tetris and Bejeweled games for iPhone and iPod Touch. Columns of colored jewel drop onto the field. Use the buttons to shift the column or rotate the colors to form a set of three jewels of the same color either horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Asteroids Game:

Fight your way through waves of asteroids using only gravity mines to steer your starship. Pick up power ups to help you, survive waves of non stop shooting action and save your score online in the global leader board. Relax and enjoy beautiful patterns in the bonus playground mode.

Penguin Attack:

Help penguins to protect their home iceberg from the invasion of aliens.

Blackjack iPod Touch Game:

Play against the house. Complete with Vegas rules including double downs, splits, and surrender. This is the best Blackjack game for iPhone and iPod Touch I've come across.

Soduko Game:

The classic Sudoku game for your iPhone & iPod Touch. You can play more than 15,000 Sudoku games. Surprisingly easy to use if you are already familiar with Sudoku.

The Top Ten iPod Touch Games:

Mind dojo -

This game by dBelement is their first game/puzzle and as introductions to the world of gaming go they have made a good start. The game/puzzle gives you a variety of questions to test your intelligence. It is timed and keeps score so you can track your progress.

Smash -

This is a quick moving arcade style game a bit like, does anyone remember breakout? The objective of the game is to remove all the blocks on the screen by hitting them with the ball without loosing it.

Omega Ball:

Peg solitaire comes to the iPod touch and that just about sums this game up. A good modern version of a classic continuing the latest trend for relaunching old classics. Good fun but is however nothing original.

Fat Free Poker:

Fat free poker is an adaptation of poker for the iPhone and iPod touch. It has a good recreation of a poker set up (table etc) with the ability to talk to other people using the game through the messaging system at the bottom of the screen.

iPhone / iPod Touch Reversi:

The goal of the game is to finish with more black tokens than white tokens on the board. Be careful your opponent is tricky.

iMinesweeper:

Minesweeper, it is as old as the hills. There is even a theory that the game was invented before the actual boat, but that is just a bit silly.

iPod touch Chess:

If you are in the mood for a little intellectual challenge then download the ipod touch chess, choose the appropriate level for your opponent, and let the mind battles begin.

Bejeweled:

Now you can play Pop Cap 2001 classic, Bejeweled, on the ipod touch. The game that has spawned countless three in a row clones works well on it is latest platform.

Battle at the sea:

Battleship for the ipod touch, what a treat? Well the old plastic toy with little model boats has been upgraded to an electronic version for everyone.

Battle Fleet:

The game that Bill and Ted used to challenge the Grim Reaper, escape the depths of hell and go on to create world peace is now bought to your iPhone and iPod touch courtesy of some chap called Roger.

Carmadillo:

Like frogger but with a different species of road-kill, Carmadillo is a brilliant time waster and must-have bookmark.

Tetris:

Tetris on the iPod touch. What more is there to say?

Connect 4 Touch:

This game is very simple and is just like Connect 4. It works just the same as Connect 4 and is very basic in design. It is however very nice to use and allows you to play against the computer or another person.

Hangman for ipod touch:

Despite the title it is not just for the iPhone but for iPod touch too and even works on the PC. Well what can I say about this? It is Hangman for the iPhone/iPod touch, nothing more, nothing less.

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