Smile! Your school's digital camera makes adding images to projects, multimedia presentations.....even your school's Internet pages* - a "snap"!  Welcome to Digital Camera Basics, one of the first "online" courses to be offered in Plano ISD. We are happy to provide this convenient opportunity for training and look forward to helping you complete the course successfully. Using the Sony Mavica MVC - FD85 Digital Camera to take still video pictures and to record short digital video with sound is easy and fun. Pictures and movies taken with the digital camera can be used in multi-media presentations, printed documents and on web pages.

All digital cameras have these basic parts: a lens, an image sensor, memory to hold the pictures, batteries, and a way to transfer the pictures to a computer. Each has a viewfinder or an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) to help you frame up your subject, and some have both. Most of them have either removable memory cards or use floppy disks to make the transfer of the images from the camera to computer. Some digital cameras require a special cable for this. The Sony Mavica uses a floppy disk to store the image files.



When you are ready to begin the course click "Next" below to move to the first lesson "Camera Basics".  

*Reminder:  Remember, before any PISD student's name, picture, voice or verbal statement, or work, can be used on a school's Internet page(s), the PISD Publications, Video, Internet Consent and Release Agreement must be signed by their parent/guardian and be on file at the campus.  This form is available from the Instructional Technology Department and is also available at: http://k-12.pisd.edu/techs/release.htm