What we talked about:

Old cameras, different forms of cameras for different purposes. The modern digital camera. Single lenses reflex form to ground glass. Cameras also have electric images to present what the camera is looking at. Lots of functions and buttons to do different things.

Photography club, meets on campus and just practices taking pictures. Derick is pretty cool and he took a lot of photos in a period of two years.

How many megapixels do you need?
Web for low res: .3 MP
Newspaper: 1.8MP
Most cameras end up around 20MP

The light-sensing chips are pretty small. Lots of different forms of storage mediums and they are all very small. Use a lot of small memory cards so that if one breaks, you don’t lose all your images.

Files formats tif ( tag image file format )
jpg ( joint pohoto experts group)
phg (portable network graphics)
gif (graphics interchange format)
RAW
DNG ( digital negative)
PDF ( portable document format)

Most often we will work in jpeg and raw
File naming format:
first
first_last
first_last_yymmdd
first_last_yymmdd_001

DP & Storytelling naming assignment
assignment_lastname
assignment_lastname_0X

Metadata: automatic date
file size
shutter/apperture/ISO
lens and focal length
flash status
User Meta Data
name
copyright notice
caption info

File Compression  Lossless
Tif, png, fig, bmp
Something else
jpeg and stuff
File sizes are important

Some cameras are getting very fast and have a lot of great features. Most are around 700 dollars. Having a lot of lenses is fun!  For more information go to dpreview.com  Use the cameras different settings for the different situations you can be in.
The screen on the camera usually shows you the different settings you have set up. The cameras have a bunch of cool buttons for doing interesting things. Basically play with the camera till you understand what everything does. The memory card is very sensitive. Use the cameras manual to get more specific information about the camera.