Benefits of Digital Photography

Digital photography is a type of photography that uses digital technology to take images of subjects. Until such technology was invented, photography used photographic film to capture images which could be made visible by photographic chemical processing.

Digital photographs can be taken, stored, displayed, printed, manipulated, transmitted and archived using digital and computer technology, without any chemical processing needed.

Digital photography is only one of several different forms of digital imaging. Digital images can also be created with non-photographic equipment such as radio telescopes and computer scanners. You can even create digital images by scanning conventional photographic images.

One benefit of digital cameras is that they may also record audio and video in addition to taking still images. Some are used as webcams and some can display images directly onto a television set. The PictBridge standard allows a camera to plug directly into a printer to print the photographs without the aid of a computer.

In recent years, digital technology has met or exceeded the quality available from standard film-based photographs. In the early years, the biggest downfall of digital technology was that the quality was not as good as a standard photograph taken with film. Now that the digital technology has improved and solved that problem, many commercial photographers have switched over to digital photography.

In fact, almost all the professional news photographers capture their images with digital cameras. With the time pressures of daily newspapers, digital photography was a natural fit once the quality was acceptable.

As digital technology has evolved, so has the features available on digital cameras. In addition to being able to instantly review, edit or delete your photo, there is very little cost in capturing hundreds or even thousands of photographs. Permanent storage on digital media is considerably cheaper than film.

Anti-shake functionality is a newer feature that allows people to take sharper hand-held pictures where a tripod was required in the past. Another cool feature is the ability to apply and remove filters to photographs right on the camera. You can convert them from color to sepia to black and white and then back again without losing the original photograph.

As digital photography continues to evolve, the days of film-based chemical processed photographs are fading quickly into the past.

Notes for editors: Claire recommends Neil Walker a Wedding Photographer in Sussex in the UK