The Future of Photography

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The Future of Photography
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What is traditional photography?

• Lens
• Light tight box
• Light sensitive material

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM (1400)
Eos 1v Camera (no lens) (1500)
Color and Black and White Films
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LensLength(s), maximum aperture

• LensOne or more pieces of optical glass or
  similar material designed to collect and focus
  rays of light to form a sharp image on the film,
  paper, or projection screen.

Sigma 70-300 F4.0-5.6 Macro Zoom Lens (190)
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LensLength(s), maximum aperture

• Higher quality lenses produce sharper images, and
  have a broader or more extreme range of potential
  apertures and lens length(s).
• Higher quality lenses also have sophisticated
  focusing, light gathering and even image
  stabilizing functions.

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM (1400)
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Light Tight Box

• Light tight box(aka camera) From the lens, the
  image exposes the film through the shutter.

Eos 1v Camera (no lens) (1500)
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Light Tight Box

• High quality camera bodies have a broader range
  of shutter speeds and capabilities.
• The camera body can be made of plastic, steel,
  aluminum, magnesium, or other materials. Light,
  sturdy materials improve mobility and durability.
  High quality bodies have seals to keep out light
  and dust.
• The body also houses any electronics needed for
  power maintenance, metering, viewing, and a host
  of other potential functions.

EOS Rebel Ti 230 (with EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 )
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What is traditional photography?

• Light sensitive materialfilm is the image
  recording device.

Color and Black and White Films
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Light Sensitive MaterialFilm

• Film is composed of emulsions of light sensitive
  crystals spread evenly on a roll (or sheet) of
  celluloid.
• High quality films often have very desirable
  qualities. Richer colors, smoother graduations,
  very little grain, extreme ISO values etc.
• A large negative is much more likely to produce a
  high quality large (gt 8x10) print than a small
  one.

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What is the Future of photography?

• Lens
• Light tight box
• Light sensitive material

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM (1400)
EOS-1DS Digital Camera 6999
CCD and CMOS Sensors
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What is the future of photography?

• LensLength(s), maximum aperture
• Lenses lens length typically enlarged x 1.3 to as
  much as x 1.7 due to the difference in size
  between the CCD and 35mm film (1.5 x 1)making
  long telephoto images easier and wide angle shots
  much more difficult to obtain.

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
(1400) This is a 170-680mm with an x 1.7
enlargement factor.
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LensLength(s), maximum aperture

• Except for the enlargement, lens use is identical
  because 35mm lenses are used for digital image
  capture.
• Lenses are beginning to be designed specifically
  for the digital format and CMOS chips are
  appearing that match the 35mm format exactly
  eliminating the lens adjustments.

Sigma 70-300 F4.0-5.6 Macro Zoom Lens
(190) This is a 119-510mm with an x 1.7
adjustment.
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What is the future of photography?

• Light tight box(aka camera) From the lens, the
  image exposes the film through the shutter.
• High quality camera bodies have a broader range
  of capabilities similar in almost every way to
  their traditional counterparts.

EOS-1DS Digital Camera 11 Megapixel Camera (6999)
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Light Tight Box

• Digital Cameras have the film built in (CCD or
  CMOS).
• Digital cameras also have built in viewing and
  storage capabilities.

EOS-D60 6.3 Megapixel SLR Digital Camera (1400
w/o lens)
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What is the future of photography?

• Light sensitive materialA CCD (charge-coupled
  device) or CMOS (complementary metal oxide
  semiconductor) panel is the image recording
  device.

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What is the future of photography?

• Images are transferred to memory, usually a small
  removable card.
• High quality CCD or CMOS sensors often have very
  desirable qualities. First and foremost, they
  capture more individual pixels of information.
  They also provide richer colors, smoother
  graduations, very little noise, extreme ISO
  values, etc.
• A large sensor is more likely to produce a higher
  quality large (8x10) print than a small one.

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What about printing the images?

• Getting the images from capture through printing
  is where the real advantages of digital come in.
  There are at least two or three steps involved.
• image editing software
• scanning (if you cant shoot digitally)
• printing

Photoshop 270 Student 600 Retail
Epson 2200 (699) Epson 2400 (199)
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What about printing the images?

• Photoshop is the tool of choice for digital image
  editing.
• Photoshop replicates darkroom techniques and
  creates many new techniques that arent possible
  to do in a traditional darkroom.
• Photoshop also allows for easy tinkering on
  images without costly printing.

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What about printing the images?

• Scanning a print or negative and printing the
  digital scan is a common choice for photographers
  wanting high quality digital images at a
  relatively low cost.

Canon 8800 2400 dpi 199
Epson 3200 3200 dpi 399
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What about printing the images?

• A very high quality inkjet printer will cost
  about 100 (not including ink and paper costs)
  but it will print beautiful full-color,
  full-bleed photo-quality 8x10 images.
• For about 350 you can print at sizes up to 13 x
  44
• Print images directly onto printable CDs for
  about 350.

Epson 1280, 890, 960
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Future of photography pros

• Pros
• There are no film costs and no developing costs
  
• You can get instant feedback from a monitor on a
  digital camera
• Digital transfer allows for almost instant
  exchange of images to anywhere in the world
  (including your home computer)
• High quality image manipulation tools like
  Photoshop make many difficult darkroom tasks very
  easy
• Printers and scanners -- cheaper and easier to
  use than darkrooms

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Future of photography cons

• Cons
• Formats change much more rapidly than film
  formats making potential image or equipment loss
  higher
• Cost for digital image qualities and equipment
  durability approaching professional 35mm
  equipment are 2-3 times as high
• Digital transfers and digital files in general
  encourage the removal or loss of old, mundane, or
  bad photos
• Digital images are typically archived much less
  thoroughly and permanently