What is Digital photography?

Digital Photography

• A type of photography in which images can be viewed on a computer screen. The process of recording images using a digital camera or a conventional camera with a digital adapter; it records on a disk or on a microchip which can then be downloaded directly to a computer in tiff, pict or eps format.

• Taking pictures with a digital camera and storing and printing them on digital devices. The "digital film," which is comprised of flash memory modules, floppy disks or CD-Rs, can be transferred to a local computer for printing, or can be uploaded to a Web site for viewing and printing.

• Uses a digital camera to electronically capture and produce images using a CCD. Scanners, software, computers and printers are used together with the camera to produce the finished image.
  

• Digital cameras record images electronically and store them as an electronic file that is often manipulated later in a software program.

• A photographic method that stores the image digitally for later reproduction. Digital photography, as opposed to film photography, uses electronic devices to record and capture the image as binary data.

In Other Words-->

• Digital photography is a form of photography that utilizes digital technology to make digital images of subjects. Until the advent of digital technology, photography used photographic film to create images which could be made visible by photographic processing. Digital images can be displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, and archived using digital and computer techniques, without chemical processing.

• Digital photography is one of several forms of digital imaging. Digital images are also created by non-photographic equipment such as computer tomography scanners and radio telescopes. Digital images can also be made by scanning conventional photographic images.