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From: Karson Snyder <snyderk@west-point.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Subject: Help our Scribe

Hello again. Just thought that, with the dirth of info in our class column, we could help out Tom Vossman by submitting more info and pics to him for inclusion in the Class Notes section of Assembly. (Of course, only a 233 of us get Assembly, but at least those who do can learn about the rest of you out there.) Anyway, since email is commonplace enough that most of us have it, and many of us have digital cameras or access to one, I wanted to remind everyone that Assembly now accepts digital pics. Here are their guidelines:

ASSEMBLY Now Accepts Digital Photos for Class Notes

While older digital cameras produce images suitable only for the web, digital camera technology has advanced enough to now produce images that are suitable for print media. If you have a camera that can take a large format digital photo, you now can send most such images to your scribe for publication in the Class Notes.

Please keep in mind the following when taking digital photos for Class Notes.

    The photo must be large format. To get this, set your camera (before you take the photo) to its best or fine mode, giving you the maximum image size for your camera. After the image has been taken, there is no way to appreciably improve its quality. The following gives examples of image size available from various capacity digital cameras:
  • 1.0 – 1.9 megapixels: at best setting will be 1,280 x 960 pixels
  • 2.0 – 2.9 megapixels: at best setting will be 1,600 x 1,200 pixels
  • 3.0 – 3.9 megapixels: at best setting will be 2,048 x 1,536 pixels
  • 4.0+ megapixels: at best setting will be 2,272 x 1,704 pixels

The more megapixels the camera is capable of, the more detail in the photo! The lowest we can use is 1.0 – 1.9 megapixels.

Do not make any changes to the photo either in size or content as this will reduce the quality of your photo. You should submit the digital file to your scribe as it comes from your camera. The only exception is with a photo taken in raw format that will need to be converted. See the manual that comes with your camera for info on that.

Try to only save your image as a jpeg once, if possible. Every time a jpeg file is saved, valuable pixels are lost, compromising image quality.

For best results, always send photos to your scribe that are in sharp focus and where faces are not shadowed. And, remember, there must be a grad or spouse of a grad in the photo for it to be considered for the Class Notes.

 

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