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Article: Digital darkroom: digital cameras don't click; buy a good scanner and printer.(includes scanning tips)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 4, 1998
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Digital cameras don't click; buy a good scanner and printer
The digital camera is a great idea--in theory. With no film and no processing, a digital camera creates a computer file as soon as you snap the shutter. It looks and operates much like a 35-mm point-and-shoot camera, but everything is instant. If you don't like your results, erase them. Transfer the keepers to your PC for viewing, manipulate them with a digital "darkroom" program--and then print them, post them on a Web site, E-mail them, or store them.
The problem with digital photography is the way the pictures look. "Consumer digital cameras simply don't deliver the quality or flexibility users ...