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Digital Camera: Modern Photography

The digital camera has revitalized the world of modern photography. Until very recently photography was generally expensive. The film camera was expensive and development and enlargement prohibitive.

Those industries associated with photography realized that something had to be done to popularize the hobby. The development of the disposable film camera started to force a price drop but development was still an issue. At that time digital technology was was in it's infancy and ridiculously expensive.

Kodak had been investigating the use of digital photography since the early 1970's and by 1986 they had produced the first megapixel camera but this still did not match the quality of film when enlarged beyond 5x7 inches. It wasn't really until Apple's release of their QuickTake 100 in 1996 that the digital camera started to hit the consumer markets. This was the time period that saw the start of the big fight for dominance in the consumer digital camera markets.

Together with the development of color inkjet printers the digital camera saw a massive growth of interest in amateur and semi-professional photography. For the first time home photography was available for all without the need for use of dangerous chemicals and a dark room. It was even possible for children to take and print their own photo's.

My first digital camera cost me a small fortune and was 2.2 megapixel compact digital camera with many of the functions found on larger digital slr cameras. I had always been interested in photography but I simply wasn't good enough. I would use a whole role of film and be lucky if one decent shot was to be found in there. The cost of learning photography prohibited me from learning fast. However my digital camera was able to take photographs that could be displayed on the computer monitor and, if good enough, I could then print it out onto high grade photo quality paper. Furthermore I could take as many photographs as I needed at no extra cost, if I did not like it I could immediately remove it from the digital camera memory card and take another.

My rate of learning increased to such a level that I learn as much about photography in one week than I had in the previous 12 months. Today I own several digital cameras including a Nikon D70 digital slr camera with several lenses. I am considering upgrading soon to one of the latest digital SLR's such as the latest Nikon. I still own a film SLR and scanners etc bit I can't remember the last time it was used.

Today it is possible to pick up digital cameras that have 6 megapixel's and higher for knock down rock bottom prices. We have almost reached the age of the cheap disposable digital camera. As we are rapidly moving towards the standard megapixel count for consumer digital cameras being 12 or above.

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