Why photographers should go digital

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Why Photographers Should Go Digital

Introduction

Historical Background

The principles involved in photography are trace back in history to the age of Aristotle , whence a film less version was used as a sketching device for artists . This device had a light box a lens and translucent screen at opposite side . An inverted image was traced on the screen through the lens . The primal extension of seeing in this device was the archetype of human eye (Newhall , 1982 , n .p

p It was in 1727 , when Johann Heinrich Schulze researched on the different eye-centered area and discovered the silver nitrate solution to be the most effective in getting darkened upon light-exposure . As time passed more and more modifications and discoveries were made by different scientist and in the art of photography , especially in principles of photography , its processing method and materials . The outcome of experiments and observations in photography first created a communication tool which later became a powerful medium used in the printing press (See B . Newhall , 1982 , n .p

The various phases of development in photography during and after the 19th century , included three developments namely

The Daguerreotype

The Calotype

The Collodion Process

Mechanism of Photography

The word photography comes from the Greek language meaning thereby 'to draw or write with light . Thus photography involves the process of making pictures through light i .e . light reflected from an object creates an image on a screen or material which is light-sensitive placed within a box now called camera . The image of the object thus formed on the light-sensitive screen is then processed either chemically or digitally into a photograph (See B . Newhall , 1982 , n .p

About Photography in General

There are many interesting aspects of photography . We get to know about so many things happening in the world through photography , so also the events in history . Photographs also tell us about the various important events and about lives of millions of people . It is through some very special cameras that images of places where people simply can not visit are captured for instance , down below the ocean , far in the open skies and deep within the human body . It is through the photographs of human inner organs that physicians and doctors can diagnose serious and fatal diseases as cancer etc . The two common areas into which photography can be classified include

Still Photography

Motion Picture

About the Cameras

There is a wide variety of cameras in the world today . Some of the very important types of cameras are mentioned below

Compact cameras

Single-lens reflex (SLR ) cameras

Digital cameras

camera phones

medium-format cameras

Large-format cameras

Instant cameras

Webcams (Web cameras (Hirsch , R , n .p .n .d

However we shall discuss the difference between the old , conventional photography and the digital photography of today in the ensuing paragraphs , and present an argumentative analysis to show how digital photography , in many ways , is far beneficial than the traditional capture , this being the scope of our...