Digital Cameras
Today’s scanners capture transparencies, reflective images, or illustrations and express them as pixels. But now we’re undergoing another revolution. High-end digital cameras now rival—or exceed—the ability of film-based cameras to capture photographic detail. The image captured by the camera is a digital original, so there’s no need to scan a print. Of course, the better the camera and the photographer, the better the image. Your mobile phone isn’t up to the job.
While conventional camera film—such as 35mm transparencies—must be scanned to be used on your computer, digital camera images can be downloaded directly to the computer and used immediately. Digital photography also cuts out the middleman. Unlike film images, digital ...
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