Digital Imaging allows individuals to freeze moments in time and capture memories that last a life time. Although there is something quite unique about the method behind a dark room, within this fast pass life style, being able to simply pull your camera out of your purse and become snap happy differently has it's place within this day in age.
MOVING ON...
Storing and transferring images is a hug part of Digital Imaging. Now days we are privileged to be able to take videos, pictures and audio recording all in the one gadget. From this, data can be transferred to many software programmes, for example, Google, email, social network, youtube.
Where are Digital Cameras used?
Every aspect of our life's is exposed to digital cameras. Areas such as work, play, sport, family and our daily activities.
Work: Education, fashion, housing modifications, real estate and many more all use digital cameras to support and justify their area of work.
Play: A way to display an individuals personal interests through their passion and a record of their life,
Sport: Whether your winning the rugby world cup or scoring your first goal in soccer as a six year old. Capturing moments during sport is among the most common areas of Digital Imagery.
Family: Capturing family events, recording special occasions, allows generations to view their family history.
Daily Activity: Present a record events throughout the day.
From these areas, individuals are able to express and portray themselves through digital imagery.
"A new technology are never totally superior to the
older technologies they attempt to replace"
I tend to to disagree with this statement. What happened to the days where the only way to develop a picture was in a dark room, or cell phones were simply meant to just call people, or the only gaming console was 'sega'.... Those days are GONE. As the decades fly by, technology is replacing old technology with new and improved versions. We now have digital cameras, able to store thousands of individual photos, videos. Cell phones are connecting us with a large population, through in built cameras, recording technology, as well as gaming consoles have given us the ability to connect to the internet and play games against people we have never meet before. Technician's who supply us with such incredible gadgets, are simply meeting the demands of billions of humans around the world, wanting and expecting a new and exciting 'toy' to play with. Our life has become so centred around technology that every nation would be at a loss if there was a malfunction. However just like the on going growth of technology, ways around this from happening are constantly being improved. The average percentage of society, would happily upgrade old technology to new technology. Technology does not 'attempt' to replace old technology, it is simply over taking it.
Ethical Issues
What better ethical issue to discuss than the topic surrounding facebook. Now i ask, how many of you have had a picture displayed on facebook that portrays you in a manner which you would rather forget?. Personally I have. Now technically our 'so called friends' should have asked our consent before embarrassing us, for all to see. As we throw ourselves bodily infront of the camera on a night out, has it ever crossed our minds where the operator will be storing these photos, displaying them, and finally who exactly will have access to them.
In a complete 'PC' world we would not have to answer the above questions. However due to the distribution of images using IT it is something which we all must be aware of.
Giving the right to others to have a say in how their images will be used is extremely important. Especially when you are involved in occupation settings such as, health, education, and even the government.
Ways in which Digital cameras are used in OT's
Within my fieldwork two placement, cameras were often used. It was a way for family members to see their parents or siblings encaging in meaningful occupation even though they suffered from dementia. OT's treat occupation as the essence of being human. From this statement, using cameras to capture a patients rehab within a certain demeanor of their daily lives, helps to justify why we choose a certain method of therapy. Cameras enables patients to see their process from the start of intervention to after intervention.
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