Photopedia: The Ultimate Digital Photography Resource

Introduction

If you’re like most Americans (indeed, like most residents of civilized countries today), you own at least one digital camera. It may be an easy-to-carry point-and-shoot model, a fancy-shmancy (and quite expensive) digital SLR, or it may be something in-between. Maybe you purchased it a few years ago, when it meant a lot to have megapixel capacity, or more recently when even the lowest-priced models shoot pictures of 5 megapixel or higher resolution. Your camera may be a Canon or a Fuji or a Kodak or a Nikon or a Sony; it may be black or silver or even pink.

The point is, you have a digital camera, and you use it—probably a lot. You use it to shoot vacation pictures and graduation pictures and pictures of your growing family and ...