Photography has always been a magic trick. A point of a box then a few hours later produce a picture of a moment captured in time. It was all a bit of mystery to most people. Someone in a dark room with chemicals. Or you could drive your transparency film and two weeks after a slide box that appears. Or you could take your film to be processed and a few days later would be blurred fit the missing heads and thumbs on the road.
Then came one Polaroid (which just announced that there were no more cameras) and instant photography was born, except the quality was not great and could not expand because there was no negative image.
A processing time we went to the instant gratification, but it was not until the advent of the digital camera that could see him just taken immediately.
I will look at the 10 most important reasons that make digital cameras and image quality than film cameras for the amateur and most professional.
1. You do not have to load the film in the camera and store the change and once the film is used. Buy a good memory card and for most of us will be more than enough for any party, family holiday.
2. Freedom to shoot. You do not have to worry about “losing shots.” Just look what it has taken and if you do not like to take it again. With a film camera you never know if you have captured the image you want.
3. Since you do not have to buy the film, is ultimately cheaper. Furthermore, in the old days you had to have all their shots printed. Now you can choose.
4. Storage. You can store thousands of images on your computer and stored on disk. Try to store thousands of transparencies or prints. And it is easier to organize and catalog them.
5. Easy to edit. Digital images can be easily resized, cropped, have any number of special effects, he added, have changed the contrast, saturation, etc simply by using readily available software applications. What used to take hours in the darkroom by an expert, can now be done at home by anyone.
6. Easy to share. There are many more sites like Flickr where you can upload your pictures and create albums and add captions and send a link to a friend or relative so they can share their photos. You can also send pictures as attachments and use on your website.
7. Lighter cameras. Since no moving parts in digital cameras apart from the shutter, digital cameras can be much lighter than their analog counterparts. (DSLR’s Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras can be much smaller than the chambers of the old and so you get a lightweight camera of equivalent quality.
8. Quality. For the amateur quality of digital images at low prices, even in the mobile / cell phones, is much greater than it used to be the analog of compact cameras. For most people, even the cheapest of digitals will give them a very acceptable image.
9. In the handling of the camera. Today’s digital you can create affects the image taken by the color shading or special effects. And you can eliminate the disaster, of course. On more sophisticated cameras can manipulate the effective film speed for each frame, which was not possible with analog if I wanted to kill 200 ASA, as if it were 400 ASA has to shoot the entire film at that speed and then inform processors of what he had done. You can also change the color balance without the use of digital filters.
10. Interoperability. By this I mean that it is possible to connect the camera to a TV and present a slide show. The camera can also have a movie setting. It’s so easy now to transfer images by connecting the camera to the computer via a USB port.
Some people under the days of old when dad would leave the projector in standby mode and then load the tray slides and everyone sat in the dark during the show. I personally believe that digital technology still lacks something of the intensity of the slides and the projected image, but in regard to quality prints is at least as well now and will improve with time. The rituals of the days of roll film and tape and light meters were fun for the hobbyist, but boring to others. The digital camera has allowed everyone to have the potential to be a decent photographer.