How Digital Photography Works, Second Edition

Part 1. Getting to Know Digital Cameras

CHAPTERS

• Chapter 1 The Workings of a Digital Camera 6

• Chapter 2 Inside Digital Video Cameras 14

	I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
	--Diane Arbus

Put a digital camera next to a camera that still uses film—if you can find a new camera that still uses film. How are they different? Some digital cameras are dead ringers for the 35mm SLR—single-lens reflex—that dominated photography for professionals as well as everyman for more than half a century. Nevertheless, a lot of the digital cameras are smaller ...