Digital Photography

The book I read to research this post was Digital Photography for Dummies by Julie Adair King which is an excellent book which I bought from Kindle. Many digital cameras double as digital video cameras. In addition many multifunctional items like smartphones & even some mp3 players can be used as cameras. If you are serious about digital photography it's best to buy a dSLR camera and some of these have interchangeable lenses although you can usually only buy lenses that are specifically for that camera. Some cameras with a fixed lens let you change the lens view at the flick of a switch. One problem in the past was that a digital camera had to charge itself each time it was used which might take a few seconds but especially the more professional cameras are improving in this respect. Some cameras have fancy features like automatic red eye removal & smile detection. Red eye comes from if you use the flash which reflects off the retina. Smile detection only works when the person faces the camera but means when you photograph someone smiling the camera automatically optimizes its settings for that persons face. Some expensive cameras in the $8,000+ category prints photos at the back of the camera each time a photo is taken. Many photographers like wedding photographers use photo editing software but only use it to adjust the light levels. Photoshop Lightroom for the pc & aperture for the mac are ideal for this purpose. When you consider lightroom sells for around $300 & the full photoshop program for around $700 you can see savings can be made. I use photoshop lightroom for most of my photography purposes and use photoshop elements for any editing.