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20743 Beginning Photography – Digital
Digital Photography Lab - Rm 015
Dick Lane    r.lane@tcu.edu

Equipment and Materials List

Required by Second Class Meeting

Camera – A Digital Single Lens Relfex (DSLR) camera is highly recommended. Most of these
cameras have at least 6 megapixels. Canon & Nikon are the recommended brands.

Notebook, pen or pencil for note taking

Required by Week 2

Epson Ultra Premium Luster Paper  (formerly known as Preumium Luster Photo Paper) OR
Epson Ultra Premium Presentation Paper (formerly known as Enhanced Matte Paper)
The boxes will have 5 Stars on them if it is good paper

**DO NOT BUY ILFORD INK JET PAPER YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO USE IT**

An inexpensive portfolio (about 16 x 20) for turning in assignments and an additional folder
portfolio or box to hold unmatted prints

Beinfang ColorMount - dry mount tissue for mounting your photographs
Kodak 18% Gray Card

(Don't buy this until you hear the lecture on mounting)
Matte Board for mounting work
White cotton gloves for handling finished work

Optional but HIGHLY recommended:
External Hard drive (Initialized as FAT32, it should work with a PC or a Mac)
You could use CD-R’s  or DVD-R’s for archiving your digital file but this will
be a much slower process than using a hard drive

Sturdy Tripod - We have some for "check out" but having your own can be good
I recommend Bogen/Manfrotto, Slik or Gitzo tripods

Recommended Text (NOT required but useful)
Photography - London, Upton & Stone 9th edition
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques - Ben Willmore
Complete Digital Photography 4th edition - Ben Long