Digital Photography - The Future Of Photography

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Digital Photography - The Future Of Photography

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Photography and digital photography.

Photography is the procedure that makes it possible to create photographs by using the action of light. Light patterns are reflected or emitted from things and recorded onto a sensitive medium in the case of traditional photography or a digital memory chip in the case of digital photography. The old film cameras used a mechanical and chemical process to achieve this, where as in digital photography a digital camera will relay on a digital process only. In the past the resulting product of photography was always referred to as a photograph, of cause nowadays most people shorten it to simply photo. In digital photography the phrase digital image or digital photo have become the norm.

The quality of digital photos depends on various factors. The number of Pixels in the digital image; normally listed on a digital camera in mega pixels (millions of pixels), is only one of the key factors, even though it is just about the most heavily marketed. The pixel count metrics were created by the marketing organizations of digital camera manufacturers to make it easier for consumers to compare one digital camera from another. It should not, however, be the only factor somebody should look at when evaluating a digital camera. The processing system, which putting it simply, converts the raw data into a color balanced and pleasing digital photo, is actually more critical. For instance some four plus mega pixel digital cameras take better looking digital photos than some five or six mega pixel digital cameras.

The origins of digital photography.

Traditional film photography was a substantial burden for professional Photographers working at isolated places, often devoid of any access to processing facilities. With the for ever increasing rivalry from television networks, there was pressure on professional photographers to deliver their images to newspapers and magazines with greater speed. For this very reason, it was not unusual for Photo journalists when at isolated places to take with them a miniature photo developing lab.

There was a definite need for a way to make it easier and faster to process photos, so in the year nineteen eighty-one Sony decided to take the first step towards digital photography by unveiling the first ever consumer camera to use a CCD for imaging, and which had no need for film; the Sony Mavica. While the Sony Mavica did save images to disk, the images themselves could only be displayed on television, so it is questionable whether the Sony Mavica could really be considered a digital camera. However in the year nineteen ninety, Kodak brought out the DCS one hundred, the first camera to be generally recognized as the very first Commercially available digital camera. It was, as all new technologies, extremely expensive and was only really used by photojournalists and the first professional digital photographers, but even so, commercial digital photography was at last born.

Why digital photography?

Digital photography, in contrast to traditional film photography, makes use of electronic devices to record the digital image as binary data; i.e. zeros and ones. This has given digital photography many advantages; for instance it makes it possible to store digital photos on any device that has the facility to store data. This means that for the first time ever, you can carry all your digital photos around with you every where you go, on a portable media player, Pda, portable or any other portable digital device. It also means that you can easily edit your digital images on your computer and of cause easily view and delete any unwonted digital photos right after taking them on a digital camera. And let’s not forget that a digital camera generally comes with lots of different features only possible with digital photography; the ability to record low quality video and sound is common in a digital camera today and most have special pre set settings for things like digital night photography or other digital photography lighting situations, sport settings, black and white digital photography settings and many more.

These are just a few of the advantages of a digital camera and digital photography on a whole. Because of all the advantages of digital photography, today far more people buy a digital camera than a traditional film camera.

Editors comment:

I hope you found this article about digital photography Helpful. Digital photography and the advantages of a digital camera where talk about here, but if you wont to know more about the subject, feel Free to browse through other articles on this site. It is in my opinion that digital photography will eventually fully replace traditional photography both Amateur and professional.