Answer these in your own words in your Media Arts notebook. This information is fair game for a text or quiz.
1. Summarize the state of photographic technology for most
of the 20th century. Were
there any big leaps in the medium used?
2. Can you tell whether a camera is digital or film just
by its size, price or type of lens?
3. What’s the only big difference between a new film SLR
and a digital SLR camera?
4. What takes the place of film in a digital camera?
5. For both film and digital cameras, summarize how the
differing intensities and colours of light which form the image are detected
and recorded.
6. How does a monitor reconstruct the dots of colour
“seen” by the camera’s CCD?
7. What accounts for the higher quality images you can
get from a higher-end (versus low-end) digital camera?
8. Describe three ways in which the shift to digital
media in photography has been empowering for artists.
9. Some people still think digital photography is not as
“pure” an art form as traditional photography.
Explain why you agree or disagree with this point of view.