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Senior Sem By: Stacey Godshall “How did Digital Photography over take film? And what has been the outcome?”

 Most people today don’t understand what photography is, and who started it. People today only use the little dinky camera’s that you get from Wal-Mart that roughly cost around one hundred dollars. Since we live in the in the modern world and technology keeps coming up with new and advanced things that people want. Since cameras have been developed for us, we used it in modern things, unlike photographers. Since photographers saw the camera as an art form, they were highly appreciated. When Kodak came out with a camera for your modern day family you as normal people started taking them everywhere, when you would come home from a long trip and see grandma and grandpa you would show them your pictures and tell the stories behind it. In my experience of working with cameras I find it a lot easier to work with a digital camera. My main topic question is, **How did digital photography over take film? And what has been the outcome?** Since you who are reading this, don’t understand what film, and digital are I will explain to you. Digital photography  is a form of photography that uses digital technology to make images of subjects. Until the advent of such technology, photography used photographic film to create images which could be made visible by photographic processing. By contrast, digital photographs can be displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, and archived using digital and computer techniques, without chemical processing.  Digital photography is one of several forms of digital imaging. Digital images are also created by non-photographic equipment such as computer tomography scanners and radio telescopes. Digital images can also be made by scanning conventional photographic images. (Wikipedia, Digital photography page 1.) While which this has led up to the first ever photograph, which was founded Joseph Nicephore Niepce  As Digital became more and more part of our culture we have been using it. We use our digital camera’s a birthday parties, Christmas, and your average soccer game. People decided to like digital because it was really easy to learn how to use it, and you can print or send your pictures instead of waiting for them to be developed. Another big thing is that it has a play back screen, so you can see what picture that you took. If you didn’t like one picture then you could trash it. Again this is what people wanted to learn, they didn’t want a camera that you had to hold still, and wait for the perfect moment. While film came into play for different photographers, it only allowed you to use black and white, nothing of color. Some people still today use black and white only because that is how the camera and film worked. But again since our lives have been developed by color and we as humans see as color were just used to seeing things in our world as color we don’t enjoy seeing everything in black and white. When asking the opinion of a teen they responded by saying “Well I would use film because, it would last longer, film can last up to 300 years in the right conditions, and it also has that grain tone, which makes it have that certain look. But also digital is good because, it’s a lot easer to save it, it doesn’t have to be in good conditions cause it saves to your memory card, and it’s a lot easier to edit, regular film you have to cut. I think that digital is better because it’s easier to work with. “–//Richie Kassabain// When asking about cell phone technology for digital he responded: “Well because the camera is built into the phone, it limits the amount of things that I need to carry around. Also when I walk down the street, or just in random spots, if you want to take a picture of something and you don’t have your camera with you it’s right their. But now that we have phones now that have cameras which it makes it more convenient to take pictures it makes it a lot easier for us. “–//Richie Kassabain// When asking an adult what they think about digital and film I got the response: “I like digital cameras; I take A LOT of pictures. We travel the country a lot and I don’t want to miss anything, I’m snapping a picture all the time. I have a very large memory card, so then I don’t have to worry about switching film, with my card I take roughly around 700 pictures and I don’t have to worry about stopping at a store to get more film. If we take a group shot I can see the picture and I can decide if I want to retake it. When I go home, I hook it up to my TV, and look at my pictures as I go along whatever I don’t want at that point I can delete them. So I’m not paying for the process of he pictures I don’t want. It’s convenient to upload to the computer, and e-mail to my family and friends.” //– (my mentor) Mrs. Fields// When asked by a fellow peer who is a teen their response is. “digital because it’s easier to view after the photo is taken to see if it’s a good photo or a bad photo and when you use film your hurting our environment cause when you throw it away Its creating trash.” “I feel they capture the time or the moment through someone else’s eyes while it’s happening, so you see what they see?” //–Rocky Del Monte IV//