CHAPTER TWENTY Photography Becomes Digital Imaging
PHOTOGRAPHY AS PIXELS: FROM SILVER HALIDE TO SILICON
The revolution brought about by the near-universal adoption of digital technologies has transformed society, and its effect on photography was unprecedented. Prior to this time, photography seemed solid, reliable. If you bought a Nikon or Hasselblad camera, you thought you would use it for the rest of your life. Everyone took pictures— but only artists or those trained in the mechanics of photography made images that were seen by hundreds or thousands of people. But there was a storm brewing deep in the heart of computer code that would radically alter photography forever.
We have become used to a world where rapid change is the norm, ...
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