2 Digital world

Imagine how you would feel if you got an endlessly reusable roll of film when you bought a conventional camera. From then on, all you would need to do is pay for the processing and printing, never having to buy another film for as long as the camera might last. Imagine now taking that situation a stage further, and being able to check each and every picture as it is taken: any picture that did not quite turn out right could then be corrected and repeated immediately. This, of course, is what photography is like when you use a digital camera. The fact that you can print the pictures at home using a desktop inkjet printer, and that electronic pictures can be manipulated or turned into postcards, calendars and e-mails, is interesting ...

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