What Is Digital Photography?

Digital photograhy is a form of imaging photographs where images of objects are captured electronically onto a micro chip. In the old days before digital cameras came about, photo images such as those taken for groups as in the case of weddings, or individually were taken by exposing film.

These raw photos or images called negatives prints had then to be processed in a dark room in the studio using chemicals to bring the pictures to life. Today electronic images are captured and then stored immediately on to your computer's picture gallery, where they can be edited using special photograhic software supplied by Nokia, Sony or Kodak specially for this purpose and the photos may be printed right from your desktop of your computer for you to enjoy.

These programs come with all the information and how-to instructions for you to learn the tricks with visual as well as written tips and examples from which you can choose your styles to work with.

How To Start A Digital Photography Hobby?

• Cost of processing prints: Convention film cost money and developing prints are costly especially for the beginner photographer starting off with this hobby. For example you need to develop the whole roll even if you did not want all the prints processed. Today with digital prints you only select the prints you need and the cost savings are huge. Secondly you save on film as you don't have to change memory cards as you take photographs. This can amount to alot especially if you are a professional. All you need to do is get a memory capacity that is large enough and just delete photographs as you save them on to your hard disc of your home computer. Imagine the cost saving you have when taking all those wedding photos you had planned.
• Time to enjoy your work: Today in the 21st Century we are spoilt as we can share our photo images as well as videos immediately with family and friends via email, or social networking sites such as MyFace.com and FaceBook.com.
• Instant Gratification or enjoyment: There is no need to wait for a few days now to see your work. You can enjoy your work right there on your camera screen to view if any of the pictures need repair. This will save your time and heartache in the future. If the photographs are bad or below average all you have to do is take another image immediately.
• Learning digital photography is simple: As your photograhic results are displayed immediately on the camera screen you can learn from your mistakes and improve your photographic skills quicker. This is handy if you are starting off as a beginner and want to learn your hobby at the same time enjoy it all visually. There are a number of online digital photographic classes that you can become a member of if you want to become more professional.
• Size and compact: Digital cameras ( video) come in a number of sizes and are comparatively smaller than conventional cameras or video devices these days.

Inspite of the digital camera being as good as it is, we need a certain amount of skill and artistic sense to be able to create good photographs or videos. Fortunately for us we can develop our skills using tips from more experienced phtographers who love sharing their work, and become a relatively good photographers sooner.We are able to view our best images immediately and pick out prints that may need some repair work to make them look professional. This helps to speed up our work especially if we have wedding albums to put together.

How long has digital photography been around?

History of Digital Photgraphy: Digital photography uses the same technology that television used way back in the 1950's to capture images. It is said that the transition from analoge to digital signals by NASA took place as early as the 1960's using computer to convert the images relaid by the satelites. Images from the moon were being enhanced using digital photograhy.

Digital imaging had a special use in spying equipment used by governments.

Today the private sector such Kodak invented the world first mega pixel sensor. More on that at http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_the_digital_camera_invented

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