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few years ago the first digital cameras were looking more like small robots equipped with
a very small television set than true cameras. They were awkward, cumbersome metal boxes
and gave very bad results. But the electronics evolution has achieved gigantic steps and
you can demand so much of cameras which, in the place of the film, carry sensors and
microchips, even more than the traditional photography film is able to give.
However the quality of the 'digitals' on average has become higher and at the same time
the audience attention has increased, also from the keen connoisseurs.
One of the gadgets that is most given away every Christmas is the
digital camera, which has gained such a dominant slice of the market, and you can find on
the consumer market today also some digital SRL cameras at quite an accessible price.
The choice of the old and new companies who rushed headfirst into the digital market, to
diversify the production, has been winning:
- lower-middle range with simple to use and low cost cameras, intended
for people who are used to takein only some picture from time to time;
- medium range consumer cameras, suitable for advanced non
professional photographers (which look more like the traditional film cameras) and
- super professional high-quality cameras aimed at journalistis at a
very expensive price.
However while increasing the technical quality the differences are losing weight and it is
difficult today to find very bad digital cameras, at least among the big firms.
For people like us, who were born with SRL film cameras in their hands, even
hand-operated, it is really useful to have a greater cognition of the of the digital world
that really has been a true copernican revolution and that is changing right now the way
to mean and make pictures.
The digital photography is baring the roots of traditional film photography probably for
ever (whether you like it or not ). The reason is simple to understand: its great dowry is
immediacy.
Just the picture taken, you can see it at once, on the camera display or on the computer.
It can be corrected, improved, transferred onto CD and DVD, emailed, more or less quickly
printed by your own printer - and in this field the qualitative progress has been
remarkable - or printed in a photo laboratory achieving quality results.
(N.D.G)
Pixels are important
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