Is digital photography expensive?

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Looking intorepparttar price index in a little more detail reveals more facts! SLR (single-lens reflex) digital cameras have attained quite a price shedding withrepparttar 116166 invention and market release of digital cameras like Canon's EOS Digital Rebel, an SLR priced below $1000, perhapsrepparttar 116167 very first of its kind. Even with certain add on intorepparttar 116168 digital camera that even add torepparttar 116169 price a bit more, stillrepparttar 116170 Rebel cost remains about $600 below its flanking competitors. However comvention has it that these standard digital cameras cost around $2500 to $4,000.

In an effort to find outrepparttar 116171 reasons behind such soaring high prices, research reveals that digital camera sensors are, for all intents and purposes, computer chips. The biggerrepparttar 116172 computer chip,repparttar 116173 more likely it is for errors. The reason remains that a single blemish inrepparttar 116174 silicon wafer may reduce to rubble an entire chip. Thusrepparttar 116175 random flaw increases withrepparttar 116176 size ofrepparttar 116177 wafer. This isrepparttar 116178 exact reason why costly chips like Intel Pentiums processors are basically not bigger than 20mm square and can be also manufactured in greater volumes. Yet withrepparttar 116179 reduction in sizerepparttar 116180 prices soar up and this provesrepparttar 116181 high costs ofrepparttar 116182 digital cameras.

Thus it becomes clear from this discussion that a predetermined mind set is required when approaching for purchasing a device likerepparttar 116183 digital camera. This discussion provides an overview ofrepparttar 116184 price ranges of good digital cameras, but a person must identify his or her own needs and preferences and have an open mind but with some notion of what a good but should be, andrepparttar 116185 cost ofrepparttar 116186 digital camera would be a guaranteed perfection!

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Digicam file formats

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The next digital camera file format isrepparttar TIFF (Tagged Image File Format). This file format hasrepparttar 116165 greater advantage that it does not lose any image file information duringrepparttar 116166 compression process and moreover as a consequence it does take up a lot of space from a memory card in comparison to a JPEG image. Due to this detailed storage it also takes additional time to retrieverepparttar 116167 information torepparttar 116168 card. Basicallyrepparttar 116169 TIFF compression reduces images to about one-third their original size as per convention.

Coming torepparttar 116170 next digital camera file format. It is defined asrepparttar 116171 RAW file! It is also sometimes referred to as an appropriate digital negative. Most advanced digital cameras allow or permitrepparttar 116172 ability to shoot RAW in professional standards. The interesting portion is that in a RAW image no alterations are made byrepparttar 116173 camera (such as sharpening or white balance). And this gives entire control torepparttar 116174 photographer when he or she processes an image later. However this RAW file format is not used extensive due torepparttar 116175 fact that most image editors cannot open it and computer-processing time is also more. Howeverrepparttar 116176 fact still remains that a RAW image has a smaller file size than a TIFF.

With all these discussions regardingrepparttar 116177 different digital camera file formats, it is clear thatrepparttar 116178 three most widely accepted file formats have their own advantages and disadvantages, yet they are unique in some way orrepparttar 116179 other that makes them special in their own manner. The knowledge about these digital camera file formats of storage not only yields greater understanding ofrepparttar 116180 camera; it also opensrepparttar 116181 eyes towardsrepparttar 116182 fantastic results of technological advancements in our daily lives.

Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.snapjunky.com. Visit his digital camera guide and learn how to take better pictures with your digicam.


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