Chapter 1What Is Digital
Cinematography begins with light.
Figure 1.1 The spectrum of visible color.
Cinematography is the art of manipulating, capturing and recording motion pictures on a medium such as film, or in the case of digital cinematography, on an image sensor such as a charge-coupled device (CCD) or complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chip set.
Figure 1.2 Charlie Chaplin at his hand-cranked Bell and Howell model 2709 camera.
In order to understand how digital photography works, it is important to understand how visible ...
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