Why Do You Choose Digital for Capturing Photo Frame?

Why Do Digital Photography?

Most of this book assumes you are already a digital photographer or have decided to become one. If you aren’t fully converted and are wondering why digital photography has almost entirely replaced film in less than a decade, here are some reasons. It would be reasonable to assume that it’s because of image quality since digital images are now equal to, and often better than film images. 

However, the real reason for the switch lies elsewhere, in the fact that once captured, digital photographs are already in a format that makes them incredibly easy to share and use. For example, you can insert digital photographs into documents, print them at a kiosk, send them by email to friends, or post them on a Web site where anyone in the world can see them. With most cameras, you can immediately see your images on a small LCD monitor on the back of the camera, or you can connect the camera to a TV and show them as a slide show. 

Some cameras can even be connected to a telescope or microscope to display dramatically enlarged images on a large-screen TV. This ability to instantly share photos with anyone, anywhere, makes digital photography so attractive.

Here are a few more reasons why the change has been so dramatic:

Kiosks in many stores let you print photos on the spot.

• Going digital saves you money in the long run since you don’t have to buy rolls of film and pay for their development and printing.

• It saves you time because you don’t have to make two trips to the store to drop off and then pick up your pictures (although you can do this with a digital camera’s memory card).

• Digital cameras instantly show you how your pictures look so you’ll no longer have those disappointments a day or two later when your film is developed.

• You can view images before they are printed and if you don’t like what you see, you can edit them to perfection or save money by not printing, or even deleting them.

• Digital photography (at least your part in it) doesn’t use the toxic chemicals that often end up flowing down the drain and into our streams, rivers, and lakes.

• No more waiting to finish a roll of film before having it processed. (Or wasting unexposed cinema when you can’t wait.)

• Many digital cameras are able to capture not only still photographs, but also sound and even video—they are as many multimedia recorders as they are cameras.

• You can use a photo-editing program to improve or alter digital images, sometimes right in the camera. For example, you can crop them, remove red-eye, change colors or contrast, and even add and delete elements. It’s like having a dark room with the lights on and without the chemicals.

• You can post your images on a Web site so others can view and even print them.

• You can have your images printed on the pages of a bound book, like those you see in bookstores.

• You can create slide shows that can be burned to a DVD for playback on a TV complete with background music or narration.