What's Digital Photography

Digital photography, as opposed to film photography, uses electronic devices to record and capture the image as binary data. As such, the images can be displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted and archived using various kinds of digital technology, including personal computers and the Internet. On the digital camera itself it is possible to view the recorded images immediately and to delete the ones not wanted.

Digital cameras now outsell film cameras and include features that are not found in film cameras such as the capacity to store many more images on a memory device than on a roll of film, the ability to record video with sound and functions to automatically and manually make edits to images and even delete images. Digital cameras in various forms are now found a a great number of devices ranging from PDAs and mobile phones to vehicles through and even in space on the Hubble Space Telescope.

A digital camera is an electronic device used to capture and storephotographs digitally, instead of using photographic film like conventionalcameras, or recording images in an analog format to magnetic tape like manyvideo cameras.

Modern compact digital cameras are typically multifunctional, with some devices capable of recording sound and/or video as well as photographs. In theWestern market, digital cameras now outsell their 35 mm film counterparts.