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Pros and cons of
digicam
Down the annals of photographic history, one has been witness to continuous changes in the equipment and processes used to record light on paper. Some of those have been termed as gradual progression while others have totally changed the shape of things. Digital camera comes in the later categories. Whether they are here to stay or will eventually fade is debatable. To put it simply, you take a picture or image in the traditional way with the digital camera and then transfer it onto a computer. Therein the photographer can improve, enhance and edit the image and then the final version is printed, used on a Web page or displayed on a computer. Digital images can also be viewed on a television or used as a multimedia presentation via a projector. Advantages 1. Digital photography negates the use of film rolls, it’s processing and the wait for prints since a digital camera stores image on a reusable disk or memory card, some of which can hold over 100 images before they are full. Once you have downloaded the images you can wipe the storage medium clean and start all over again. 2. It gives the photographer the choice of keeping the images, which are wanted, and deleting the unwanted ones immediately after they have been shot. 3. Image editing software allows one to become a picture editor and a graphic artist. 4. One can catalogue images on a PC with indexing programs that helps in dispensing with the boxes and albums of pictures scattered around the house. 5. These digital images can be stored electronically, printed, sent around the world via e-mail or viewed in the living room through a slide show on television. Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows XP has been especially designed to be digital camera friendly. 6. Digital images are ideal for e-mailing to friends, family and colleagues over the Web. With personal Web pages one can keep connected with distant relations by posting one’s family images every now and then. Disadvantages 1. Digital photography is not a cheap hobby and has high costs involved. The least that is needed to produce and edit digital images is a digital camera, a PC editing software and a printer. The printer could be optional if you are only using images on the Web. 2. There are printing costs too as photograph quality paper and ink is not cheap and moreover, there is the usual wear and tear of printer. 3. Digital photography has
some really complex technical aspects that can initially be cumbersome.
Some of the cameras are hard to use, and downloading images into the
computer is tough for some persons. 4. Constant upgradation and new innovation in this field can make the equipment obsolete in a year and leave high and dry. 5. When trying to take
prints using a home computer and inkjet printer, the prints often comes
in the size of a postage stamp or too big for an 8-1/2x11 sheet of
paper. Thus, high running cost is involved. |
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Digital
photography is a union of photographic techniques and computer
technology. Digital revolution in the field of photography has enhanced
the quality of the pictures clicked while doubling up the processing
speed.