How Digital Photography Works

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Praise for the First Edition of How Digital Photography Works Chosen in 2006 as one of the Best Photo/Digital Books of the Year ...

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How Digital Photography Works Second Edition Ron White Illustratedby Timothy Edward Downs 800 East 96th Street Indianapolis, IN ...

How Digital Photography Works, 2nd Edition Copyright © 2007 by Ron White Associate Publisher Greg Wiegand Copy Editor Jessica Mc ...

For Sue, without whom this book and the best things in life would be impossible, Ron For Olivia and Marco, my daily inspiration, ...

Part 1: Getting to Know Part 2: How Digital Digital Cameras Chapter The Workings of a Digital Camera Gathering the Light Creati ...

vii How Software Compresses Pictures for Storage 112 How Pictures Are Stored on a Chip 114 How a Digital Camera Squeezes Video D ...

About the Author Ron White is the author of the award-winning, decade-long best-seller How Computers Work and a dozen other book ...

Acknowledgments WRITINGthis book was my own exploration into many areas about which I was so unfa- miliar that I didn’t know how ...

Steven Rosenbaum of S.I.R. Marketing Communication, Andy LaGuardia and Craig Andrews of Fujifilm, Eric Zarakov of Foveon, Steve ...

We Want to Hear from You! ASthe reader of this book, youare our most important critic and commentator. We value your opinion and ...

Introduction It’s weird that photographers spend years, or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, ...

With all tools, it’s possible to misuse them. Ask anyone who has tried to use pliers to hammer a nail or a hammer to loosen a li ...

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PART 1 Getting to Know Digital Cameras CHAPTERS CHAPTER 1 THE WORKINGS OF A DIGITAL CAMERA 6 CHAPTER 2 INSIDE DIGITAL VIDEO CAME ...

44 PART 1 GETTING TO KNOW DIGITAL CAMERAS PUTa digital camera next to a camera that still uses film—if you can find a new camera ...

photos, whereas another is adept at hurrying photos along to the storage space on memory chips. The other type of chip is less o ...

6 PART 1 GETTING TO KNOW DIGITAL CAMERAS The Workings of a Digital Camera Chapter Chapter 1 ...

CHAPTER 1 THE WORKINGS OF A DIGITAL CAMERA^7 You push the button, we do the rest. George Eastman, 1888, pitching the first Kodak ...