1. How Digital Photography Works

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Until recently, every family had at least one film camera in the household. When I was growing up, my family had a cute little Kodak Brownie box camera and then a Polaroid SX-70 instant camera. I eventually graduated from the Brownie to a Pentax ME Super 35mm SLR camera, which I owned until just a few years ago.

Today, however, most of those film cameras have been replaced by digital cameras. To the end user, using ...

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