What Is With Digital Photography

Jan 6
14:53

2009

Michael Wong

Michael Wong

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Digital photography is nothing new to the general public anymore. Whether you are watching TV, online or go out to a gathering, you will see people snapping pictures with digital camera. But what actually did digital photography change compare to film photography? This article shares with you the answer to that...

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Many people are getting into the hobby of photography ever since digital photography emerged in the market. It has provided a new means to the hobby. One of the best changes is the LCD screen.

Compact digital cameras nowadays are equipped with LCD screen so that you can frame your picture easily. This helps the photography beginner to enjoy the hobby without looking into the small viewfinder. Also,What Is With Digital Photography Articles digital camera manufacturers are challenging themselves to fit bigger screen to the camera. Imagine taking your pictures when looking at a 5 inches LCD screen. Digital photography is going to be so enjoyable.

As you have guessed, photography is going to stay digital from now on. You are going to see more advance technology and one of the examples is the display of your pictures. Last time, you can only print out your pictures to appreciate them. Now, you can view them on your digital camera immediately and if you don't like it, you can delete them and take a better picture. And there is more, you can even look at your pictures on PC, laptop and TV.

When you are viewing your pictures on your PC, you can also do some minor editing to your pictures. The computer operating system nowadays usually comes with basic photo editing capability. You can always resize or sharpen your pictures on your own.

Besides that, you can also do the photo printing on your own. You just need to get a photo printer and printing photo will be as easy as printing a document. Who knows in the future, you will see printers that can print documents and photographs together.

Also, you can only keep your picture in your film roll last time and if you accidentally exposed your film, that is it. All the precious pictures you have taken will be gone. Now with digital photography, the pictures you took will be converted into binary information and store in different storage media.

And just to let you know, not all the digital camera use the same storage media. Some use flash card and some might be using memory stick. But no matter what kind of storage media they use, the storage capacity is going to be bigger.