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How to Connect a Car Backup Camera to Your PC

Many vehicles have limited visibility from the rear window, so using a car backup camera makes sense in order to prevent accidents when trying to parallel park or perform other advanced driving...

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How to Use Wireless Camera Receivers

A wireless camera receiver receives all video input from your wireless video camera and allows you to view the video from your computer or TV monitor. Before you can use the wireless camera receiver,...

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Directions for the Bell & Howell Auto Load 8mm Super Movie Projector

Super 8 is a small format motion picture film that came into widespread use in the 1960s and '70s. Prior to Super 8's introduction to the home movie market in 1965, the most common formats were 8 and...

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How to Know When a Digital Concepts Charger Is Done Charging?

A company called Digital Concepts makes a series of devices designed to charge AA and AAA sized batteries, as well as batteries for digital cameras and camcorders. These chargers will not reinvigorate...

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How to Fix Swann Wireless Cameras

Some common problems with Swann wireless cameras include a blank picture, lines in pictures and unclear images. Many causes of display issues are due to an incorrect receiver placement or channel...

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How to Use the Minolta Xg-1 SLR Camera

In 1978, Minolta sold the XG1 single-lens reflex camera. This was a simple and affordable camera, built with fewer features than the company's XG7. The XG1 allowed the photographer manual control over...

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How to Make a Homemade PSP Camera

Though you can easily purchase a PSP camera from game and electronic accessory stores, you may wish to create a camera from old items you have laying around. Since the PSP contains a working USB port,...

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What Are the Causes of Infrared Trail Cameras With White-out Pictures?

Infrared trail cameras have increased in popularity with the reduction in their price. Cameras that can sense motion and take photographs of whatever wildlife or other action trips their motion sensor...

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Kodak Movie M80 Instructions

Kodak's Instamatic M80 Movie Projector was originally used to screen both regular 8mm and Super 8 movie film formats. While the projector has long been out of production at Kodak, working M80s and...

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What Is a Shutter Speed on a Camera?

In modern photography, three factors determine how much exposure a particular media such as film or a digital sensor receives. The ISO, the aperture and the shutter speed comprise these three factors...

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How Many Types of Cameras Are There?

Cameras have evolved since the birth of photography in the middle of the 19th century to an almost unrecognizable level. Yet, virtually all of the camera types ever used still exist, and you still can...

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Parts of a Camera for Kids

Since cameras first revolutionized image-making in the 19th century, they have endured as a tool of creative expression, a means of documentation, a source of news and myriad other functions. Cameras...

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Cool Places for a Photo Shoot

Photos are an easy way to capture a memory, and you don't have to go to a photo studio or pay someone big bucks to get a memorable photo. The location of a photo shoot can go a long way toward turning...

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Snap Sights Underwater Camera Instructions

Recent years have seen underwater photography become much more fashionable with cheaper devices available for people to capture underwater fun and wildlife. Snap Sights make a range of inexpensive...

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How to Mix Old & New Batteries

Most manufacturers warn against mixing old and new batteries as well as batteries from different manufacturers. With most devices, mixing old and new batteries will simply drain the new battery faster,...

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How to Turn off the Autofocus on the HD Microsoft Lifecam 5000

The Microsoft LiveCam HD-5000 is a high-definition Web camera designed specifically for desktop PCs. The LiveCam HD-5000 outputs video at 720p and has two unique features, Auto Focus and True Color,...

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Biggest Difference Between Old & Modern Photos

Digital photography has several advantages over older photography made by exposing light-sensitive film and developing the photos with photography chemicals. Digital photos can be stored and shared...

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How to Format a Memory Card for Moultrie I-40

The Moultrie Game Spy I-40 is a trail camera. With the I-40, you can strap the unit to a tree or sturdy object in the woods and the motion-detection feature will automatically take a snapshot of...

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What Is the Difference Between Digital Cameras and Film Cameras?

When it comes to taking pictures, you have the option of going with a traditional film camera or getting a digital camera. While they can both get the job done, each provides the user with different...

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How to Put Pictures on a Digital Photo Keychain by Digital Solutions

Digital photo key chains display a slide show of several digital photographs. To add photos to these key chains, you must install the software included with the key chain and add each photo manually....

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What Are LED Wavelengths?

From flashlights to massive monitors designed for stadiums and arenas around the world, light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, have become very important electrical components. Designing fascinating equipment...

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How to Fix a Kodak Instamatic M95

In the days of amateur and home movie makers, Kodak's Instamatic M95 was the crown jewel of projectors. It was thoroughly modern in the 1960s, allowing the home movie maker to project both 8 mm and...

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Canon Auto-Focus Problems

If your Canon camera won't auto-focus accurately or at all, troubleshoot the situation. Sometimes a quick fix can eliminate the hassle of hauling your gear to a repair shop or mailing it to Canon for...

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ELMO Document Camera Troubleshooting

The Elmo document camera is a valuable teacher's helper, as it is useful in displaying images of small insects, meal-worms or fossils for class assignments. It also helps in demonstrating finger...

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How to Fix a Blurry Photo in a Nikon Capture NX 2

After taking a variety of photos when on vacation, it is always dismaying when viewing them on your computer monitor at home to find that several of them are blurry. While severe camera shake/image...

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Things to Keep in a Faraday Box

Faraday boxes, more commonly called Faraday cages, are used to protect electronics from lightning and other electrical discharges. They are made from a conductive material; the inside of the cage is...

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Why Is My Canon EOS Blurry?

If images look blurry through the viewfinder or on the LCD screen of your Canon EOS-series camera, troubleshoot the problem before continuing to take pictures. Photo editing software and professional...

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How to Repair & Refurbish a Canon MP500 Purge Unit

Most printers come with a purge unit to ensure long-lasting quality prints. A purge unit cleans the print heads inside of a printer and also serves as a resting place for the print heads. Purge units...

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Parts of a Webcam

The ubiquitous tool of the video blogger or podcaster, a webcam records and transfers video to your computer -- or directly to the Internet. Webcams come in many forms; they may be an independent...

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The "Webcam Is in Use by Another Program" Error

The "Webcam is in use by another program" error message usually pops up on the screen if the webcam runs into a conflict with two or more applications. Webcams, both built-in and external, use a single...

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My Web Cam Won't Work in ooVoo

Webcams allow you to video chat with family and friends in ooVoo. However, the messaging program won't recognize a webcam that is incompatible with the computer, outdated, or improperly connected....

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How to Take Passport Photos From a Canon T2i

According to the DIYPhotography website, a passport photo is a 5-by-5-centimeter photograph used on a person's passport and other documents where identification is required. Having passport photos done...

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Pros for Cameras in the Classroom

Most public schools these days are equipped with video surveillance cameras for safety and security purposes. While there are cost and privacy violation issues involved in installing cameras in...

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How to Date a Graflex Speed Graphic by Serial Numbers

The Speed Graphic was a camera made by Graflex, at one time a division of the Eastman Kodak Corporation. The date of production of the Speed Graphics is indicated by certain codes. If the lens of a...

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AI Focus Vs. AI Servo

Canon's electro-optical system line of SLR cameras have two shooting modes, AI Focus and AI Servo that both automatically focus the camera's lens. Knowing the differences between these two distinct,...

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How to Put Movies on a Digital Picture Frame

Digital picture frames are not only for displaying static pictures; they're becoming a popular item for those who want to watch a movie on a tablet-like screen. In 2008, the first digital picture...

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How to Send a Happy Birthday Video

With the recent technological boom and the integration of videos and computers, sending a happy birthday video to a loved one, whether down the street or across the world, is easier than ever.

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How to Unlock a Micro SD Card Password

Micro Secure Digital memory cards, or Micro SD cards, provide storage for a variety of different kinds of devices, including mobile phones, PDAs and cameras. They can be protected by passwords so that...

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How to Activate a Built in Camera

A built-in camera either in a computer or a cell phone can be confusing to activate at first. However, once the steps are understood, a user can activate the feature very easily.

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Bushnell Trail Camera Instructions

If you want to capture images of wildlife activity in a particular area, you might be interested in using a trail camera. A Bushnell Trail Camera shoots digital images automatically whenever its motion...

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How to Turn on a Chicony 2.0 USB Camera

The Chicony USB 2.0 Webcam is a video and still-shot camera which is built in to several models of laptops--most commonly Toshiba laptops. Running the camera program should be a simple case of finding...

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What Is the Structure of a Camera?

The modern-day camera functions in much the same way as cameras before it. Cameras allow a small amount of light inside their body when the shutter is open. Either photographic film or a light...

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How to Set the Time on a Mini DV Spy Cam

If you leave your child with a nanny or you are concerned about the safety of valuable items in your home or at work, a spy cam is perfect for you. These discreet tiny but powerful cameras can be...

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How to View Infrared Light

Anything with a temperature puts out heat or infrared light, including human beings and animals. Humans cannot see infrared light with the naked eye, unlike snakes in the pit viper family, such as...

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How to Build a Security Box for a Trail Camera

Trail cameras are self-contained camera units that are designed to be attached to a tree or a pole. The camera is triggered by a motion detector and will photograph any animal that happens to walk in...

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How to Store Batteries in the Refrigerator

When batteries are left in a hot or humid environment, they can lose power quicker than if they were stored in a cool, humid-free area like the refrigerator. Regular, one use and rechargeable batteries...

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The Disadvantages of Thermal Imaging Cameras

Thermal imaging is a technology which allows people to take pictures of heat energy. This is a noninvasive and convenient way to inspect certain areas of a home. For example, thermal imaging cameras...

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How to Preserve Ultrasound Photos

A pregnancy is often among the most cherished and wonderful times in any woman's life, creating moments that she'd like to hold on to forever. Ultrasound photographs are essentially the first pictures...

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How to Prevent Shadows in Portrait Photography

Pictures are one of the best ways to keep memories of your loved ones. With advanced technology, pictures can last for a long time. Whether you are a professional photographer or an amateur, your main...

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Important Components of a Camera

Cameras may seem like fairly complex machines, but they all actually work on a fairly simple principle: capturing light and transforming that light into an image. Although all the bells and whistles...

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