June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 34m
English
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Chapter 1. Digital Camera Basics
Photographic technology didn’t change much for the first hundred years or so. Sure, cameras got smaller and easier to use, lenses grew more powerful, and film quality improved, but folks were still basically taking pictures with a box that focused an image on a light-sensitive piece of film. The world, apparently, was ready for a change.
Barely a decade after they first entered the average consumer’s consciousness (and price range), digital cameras started outselling film cameras—a shift of culture-jarring proportions. By early 2006, a staggering 92 percent of cameras sold were digital cameras.
Film photography giants like Kodak, Canon, and Olympus are now major players on the digital market, and they’ve been joined by manufacturers coming from the electronics side, like Sony, HP, Casio, and Samsung. The makers compete for your dollars by offering dozens of digital camera models with a dizzying array of features. Fortunately, if you understand just a few important digital camera basics, you can evaluate—and take great photos with—almost any camera you pick up. If you’re reading this book because you’re one of the millions getting ready to take the digital plunge for the very first time, this chapter will familiarize you with digital photography terms like megapixel, flash memory, and burst mode. No camera salesman or newspaper circular will ever again seem quite so daunting.
On the other hand, if you’re already the proud owner of a digicam, you’ve ...
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