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Article: Digital photography hits the mainstream: just as PCs changed the way we thick about documents, digital cameras are changing the way we think about images. (On Topic Digital Photography).
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- Computer User
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- May 1, 2002
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Instant gratification is intoxicating. There's something magical about taking a photo, then turning a dial or pushing a button to see it displayed on the camera's monitor. You screwed up? Snap the picture again. A keeper? As a nugget of data it's ready for e-mailing, printing, or importation into an image editor, where the fun really begins.
That immediate payback is one of the main reasons why digital photography is a hot technology in an otherwise tepid consumer IT industry. Once dominated by inveterate gearheads who actually understand what pixelization and chromatic aberration mean, digital photography has gone mainstream, embracing just about everyone who ...