Chapter 23. Digital Cameras

Forget the yellow or green boxes and snub your nose at the one-hour photo place. A digital camera doesn't need film—that's the whole point of it—and it doesn't need a film company. No need for the photofinisher any more, either. The digital camera is a revolution in photography. Better than Polaroid, you don't have to wait to see what develops or suffer the agonizing wait as colors fill in through the fog. Instantly you know what went wrong (and with photography, something always goes wrong—the challenge is finding the least-wrong image) and whether you need to snap again. You can review a half dozen shots at a time in the camera, choose the ones you want, and take some more without wasting an inch of film. When you're ...

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