Image capture, image output and storage of image assets generate log/report during investigations of relevant digital graphics technologies used to create digital graphics for interactive media products.

Image Capture

Mobile Phones - Smart phones like the iPhone 5s, Samsung galaxy s4 and Nokia Lumia's are equipped with very powerful cameras that can take high quality 1080i HD videos and pictures that are as good as or even better normal digital cameras. The downside to this is that mobile phones sometimes have only a limited amount of storage and the file sizes are large due to there quality especially in a iPhone where there is no external memory available unlike other phones which have a external memory cards that can extend the memory. 

Photo that i took on my SamsungGalaxyS(5mp)                              Photo that was took on my old phone a Blackberry Curve 8520 (2mp)

                   
You can see there is a very clear difference in the image quality from the two phones. The image taken from the samsung is very clear and looks bright is generally a very good image. it is not blurry at all. The image taken from the blackberry is very dark even though it was a bright day and the colours are dim.

Camera phone comparison/review CNET

Digital Cameras- 

Digital Cameras are used for getting a HD high quality balanced image and can change the settings so a  perfect image can be taken. there are many types available on the market from small compact digital cameras with a small zoom/MP and are easy to use too expensive large SLRS that can cost alot of money to take professional shots either for leisure or commercial. The size of these images can be huge due to the quality.




(http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2012/02/digital-camera-comparison-chart/)



Useful link - What Digital Camera


File Sizes/Storage of image assets

File size are measured in:

Gigabyte žMegabytež Terabyte
HD Quality files are larger and have a higher bit rate which is how much data is transferred per second.

The bigger the file, the longer it takes to download and upload them. Bigger files are usually high quality HD movies and TV programs; a 1.34hr SD movie on a iPad takes up 1.4GB which takes up lots of memory especially on a portable device that only has 16GB of memory on it.  Normal audio files do not take much space up.

You can shrink the file size by compressing files as it lowers the quality of the file and formatting it can also change the file size, however you might not be able to play on a certain device. 

Images can be saved on memory cards that can be inserted into many mobile phones, large external hard drives that can hold more than a terabyte, on line like iCloud (apple), USB sticks, computers/laptops, tablets and mobile phones.