Digital Photographic Capture | 
 enlarge | Authors: Glenn Rand, David Litschel, Robert G. Davis
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 232
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0240806328
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
EAN: 9780240806327
ASIN: 0240806328
Publication Date: March 15, 2005
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Product Description
The major function of photography is to capture a picture from what is in front of you. Whether a picture of the family pet or advertising spread, the acquisition of the scene is the first step in the digital image process. Digital Photographic Capture takes that first step and it breaks it down in detail so you can understand and better manipulate the mechanics of the process.
As we transition from the silver halide base of photography to an electronic enabled future, we can step to the side and look at the intersection of these processes. Today it is not that one is superior in all situations, but that in the imaging world hybrid imaging maintains uses in unique applications and has certain advantages.
Digital Photographic Capture explores construction and functions of the various parts and processes used to capture images. Sensors, lenses, creation, storage, and hybrid imaging are all broken down into basic explanations, enabling the photographer to have a basic understanding of the photography today. This is your new introduction to photography.
* Discusses capture for cameras, scanners, and non traditional imaging devices.
* Learn how the design and functions of sensors effect the way light is captured.
* Explore lens dynamics needed for digital cameras and how optics create the "telephoto" effect with digital cameras.
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Digital Mysteries Revealed May 25, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Once you begin reading Glenn Rand's fascinating, attractive book, you start to realize how much you didn't know about digital imaging and what's going on inside the digital camera you just bought. It's not an essential read for using your camera, but it's essential if you insist on understanding what is becoming one of the most valuable and most important technical advances of the last century and this one. In my own writing, I found myself turning again and again to Digital Photographic Capture for authoritative inforamtion on the technical esoterica of photography.
Digital Photographic Capture May 8, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Dr's Rand, Litschel, and Davis have written an outstanding, definitive text which should be mandatory reading for everyone making the switch to digital. The authors successfully guide the reader through ten chapters discussing the technicalities of digital image sensors, lens basics, image output, exposure basics, and file formats just to mention a few. There is enough detail here to satisfy even the most keen minded.
The authors start each chapter with a brief overview of the chapters contents and define key photographic terms in the side margins as the chapter unfolds. Additonally, the text is illustrated with detailed visual color schematics reinforcing the points made by the authors in each chapter. Finally, the authors wrap up each chapter with a brief summation and include an extensive list of chapter terms. There is also some great photography in each chapter also!
The authors are to be commended for guiding the reader to a technical understanding and focusing on information that is fundamental to digital imaging both past, present and future.
This book should be in the library of anyone curious about what goes on under the hood of their digital camera. Yes, it is technical but not so technical that a beginner could not understand it. A must read! Highly Recommended!
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