Through hands-on exercises, students will successfully learn to use all aspects— technical and creative—of a digital camera, including all the buttons, dials, switches and menus found on digital cameras. The lessons covered include choosing and evaluating digital cameras, working with camera manuals, memory cards and composition basics, working with customized camera settings, exploring exposure, resolution, compression, and file formats, color and white balance settings, outputting to printers and the web and using your digital SLR.