Digital camera have been around for a while, but what he did after he took the pictures was the real eye-opener for me. My brother is not a designer, nor is he an artist, though he does have a technical background. Each night he came home and spent an hour using a software program on his laptop to edit the images. He cropped out the important areas and deleted the rest, he airbrushed out telephone lines and ugly distractions in the background, and saved his images in .GIF or .JPG format on his computer's hard drive. It was a fascinating experience of how technology is affecting our everyday lives.
Digital cameras have tremendous applications for communicators.
Organizations with small communication budgets can benefit especially. While a professional may take better pictures, any of us could take a digital camera to a company event or take candid shots around the office and produce useful shots with little more effort than my brother used. You could take product photos for a catalog or show off your new lobby remodeling. You could incorporate images into executive presentations. Images are applied instantly to memory chips in the camera.