Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

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CHAPTER 1 QUICKSTART TO DIGITAL: PIX TO PRINT IN SECONDS 9 IF YOU LEARN ONLY ONE THING IN THIS BOOK... Get closer. To set yourse ...

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2 In this chapter The Advantages and Disadvantages of Digital Cameras The RGB and sRGB Color Space CCDs and CMOS Chips: How The ...

■ Resolution. Consumer-level digital cameras are not capable of higher resolutions than what you would receive from a 35mm cam- ...

Capture Delays By far the biggest problem with consumer-level digital cameras is the delay. Unlike most film cameras, some consu ...

The camera should be an extension of you. It should feel as effortless as riding a bike. This is currently only possible with di ...

through a lens far from its center. The rays do not focus on a point inside the camera, but instead create a cone of light, whic ...

three primary colors, resulting in two addi- tional signals to describe color. Combining the three signals back together results ...

As you use Photoshop and digital photography more often, you will need to ensure that you have the most accurate color setup by ...

CCD and Color: Using a Color Mask CCDs are monochromatic devices. They simply measure the amount of voltage acquired by each pix ...

Green pixels outnumber red and blue by a ratio of 2:1. The reason for this is that human vision is most sensitive to green, whic ...

■ In addition, the inaccurate sensors used with a Bayer mask require ”blur fil- ters” to reduce color artifacts. The random appe ...

CHAPTER 2 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL CAMERAS 21 FIGURE 2.5 Foveon’s three-layer technology. Aliasing and Other Imag ...

22 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 2.7 Decrease green by 50 percent to achieve color balance. The next st ...

Highlights and CCD Sensitivity A smaller but noticeable problem with CCD cameras is with highlights. Chrome reflec- tions, the s ...

much sense to you as instructions for setting your VCR clock. This, of course, meant you forgot them immediately. However, techn ...

CHAPTER 2 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL CAMERAS 25 FIGURE 2.9 Click the double arrows in Photoshop Elements or Photosh ...

For a more detailed list of data included in an EXIF image, see the preceding section on EXIF 2.2. PictBridge PictBridge is a pr ...

CHAPTER 2 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DIGITAL CAMERAS 27 The Absolute Minimum Now you know what some disadvantages are to th ...