The ability of a digital sensor to capture information over the whole range from darkest areas to lightest is called its dynamic range. You take many kinds of photos in which an extended dynamic range would be useful. Tones that are too dark won’t provide enough photons to register in the sensor’s photosite “buckets,” producing [...]

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Digital photography was quickly embraced in several professional fields of endeavor where the cost of $12,000-$30,000 cameras was easily outweighed by the convenience of having digital images instantly. Here’s a quick summary:

Photojournalism. Newspapers, news magazines, and news Web sites need visuals quickly, and can’t wait for their photographers to fly images back from Afghanistan. [...]

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Because most digital SLR photographers were already seasoned veterans before they began using a dSLR, they already have a considerable advantage over neophyte photographers who must master digital technology at the same time they are learning photographic basics. You know to hold the camera steady in dim light and how to make a background less [...]

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