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| Gutschick, V. | |
| Should you use a digital camera in your research? | |
| 2012 Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (83): 176-180 | |
Digital cameras offer some significant advantages for researchers over traditional cameras performing silver-based photography. Several come to mind immediately to most people. One is the ability to incorporate images into documents rapidly. Another is the in-the-field assurance that those field photos that are so expensive or impossible to retake are recorded properly. Prices of digicams, as we may term them, have come down sharply every year, and performance has increased by many measures. Promoters of digicams highlight their advantages, but there are downsides. The balance of pros and cons in one's own research may be hard to strike before one undertakes a major expense. I offer the following comparisons to help in this judgment |
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