Overview

A full-color, illustrated adventure into the high-tech wonders inside your digital camera by the author/illustrator team that created the bestselling How Computers Work.   With clear and simple explanations that say, “You, too, can understand this,” and brilliant, full-color illustrations, How Digital Photography Works, Second Edition, gives you detailed information on the hidden workings of digital cameras, professional picture-taking techniques, and even photo-editing software. Some of the topics covered in this groundbreaking book include:   ·         How Digital Viewfinders Frame Your Pictures ·         How Twin Lens Cameras and Tilt-and-Shift Lenses Change the Rules ·         How Cameras Focus on Moving Targets ·         How Exposure Systems Balance Aperture and Shutter ·         How Electronic Flashes Create a Burst of Light ·         How Studio Lighting Creates a Perfect Lighting Environment ·         How Color Calibration Makes What You See on the Screen Match What You See on Paper ·         How Your Camera’s Microprocessor Manipulates Images ·         How Photoshop Expands a Photographer’s Artistry     Introduction Part 1: Getting to Know Digital Cameras  Chapter 1         The Workings of a Digital Camera Chapter 2         Inside Digital Video Cameras  Part 2: How Digital Cameras Capture Images Chapter 3         How Lenses Work  Chapter 4         How Light Plays Tricks on Perception  Chapter 5         How Digital Exposure Sifts, Measures, and Slices Light  Chapter 6         How Technology Lets There Be Light  Chapter 7         How Light Becomes Data  Chapter 8         How New Tech Changes Photography  Part 3: How the Digital Darkroom Works  Chapter 9         How Software Changes Pixels by the Numbers  Chapter 10       How Digital Retouching Rescues Family Heirlooms  Chapter 11       How the Digital Darkroom Makes Good Photos into Great Fantasies  Part 4: How Digital Print-Making Works  Chapter 12       How Computers and Printers Create Photographs  Chapter 13       How Photo-Quality Printers Work  Glossary  Index   

Full Product Details

Author:   Ron White ,  Timothy Edward Downs
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Que Corporation,U.S.
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 20.40cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.574kg
ISBN:  

9780789736307

ISBN 10:   0789736306
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   05 March 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction  xii Part 1: Getting to Know Digital Cameras  2 Chapter 1   The Workings of a Digital Camera  6     Gathering the Light  8     Creating the Image  10     Storing the Image  12 Chapter 2   Inside Digital Video Cameras  14     How the Digital Camcorder Captures Future Memories  18     How a Professional Digital Video Camera Works  20   Part 2: How Digital Cameras Capture Images  22 Chapter 3   How Lenses Work  26     How Light Works  28     How a Lens Bends Light  30     How We Perceive Detail  32     How a Lens Focuses an Image  34     The Magnifying Glass Effect  36     How Lenses Don’t Focus  38     How Active Autofocus Makes Pictures Sharp  40     How Passive Autofocus Sees Sharp and Fuzzy  42     How a High-Tech Motor Moves the Lens  44     How the Eye Controls Autofocus  46 Chapter 4   How Light Plays Tricks on Perception  48     How Viewfinders Frame Your Pictures  50     How Lenses See Far and Wide  52     How Digital Lenses Manipulate Space  54     How Optical Zooms Zoom  56     How Digital Zoom Fakes It  58     How Perception Creates Depth of Field  60 Chapter 5   How Digital Exposure Sifts, Measures, and Slices Light  62     How a Diaphragm Controls Light  64     How a Shutter Slices Time  66     How a Camera Measures Light  68     How Light Meters See the World  70     How Digicams Juggle Exposure and Creativity  72     How Exposure Systems Balance Aperture and Shutter  74     How Digital Photographers Remain Masters of Their Domains  76     How Digital Cameras Create a Whiter Shade of White  78     How Speed Creates Noisy Pictures   80     How Histograms Run the Gamut  82 Chapter 6   How Technology Lets There Be Light  84     How Electronic Flash Works  86     How the Flash Knows When to Quit  88     How Shutter and Flash Sync  90     How a Flash Turns Eyes Red  92     How Fill Flash Works  93     How Studio Lighting Works  94     How Photographers Control Light and Shadow  96 Chapter 7   How Light Becomes Data  98     How Film Photography Captures an Image  100     How a Microchip Catches a Picture  102     How Image Sensors Differ  104     How the Foveon Image Sensor Stacks It On  106     How an Image Becomes Data  108     How Algorithms Smooth Out a Picture’s Rough Spots  110     How Software Compresses Pictures for Storage  112     How Pictures Are Stored on a Chip  114     How a Digital Camera Squeezes Video Down to Size  116 Chapter 8   How New Tech Changes Photography  118     How Digital Tech Changes the Way Lenses Work  120     How Four Thirds Digital Cameras Create a New Standard  122     How Digital Cameras Cure the Shakes  124     Electronic Image Stabilization  126     Vari-Angle Prism System  127     Piezoelectric Supersonic Linear Actuator Stabilization  128     Shift Image Stabilizer  129     How Lenses Tilt with Images  130     How Two Lenses Work As One  132     How a Light Field Camera Can Focus Anything  134     How Digital Cameras Tidy Up  136   Part 3: How the Digital Darkroom Works  138 Chapter 9   How Software Changes Pixels by the Numbers  142     How Software Manipulates Images on the Pixel Level  144     How the Digital Darkroom Focuses Pictures After They’re Taken  146     How Blurred Becomes Better  148     How Software Changes Exposure After the Shot  150     How Software Corrects Bad Lighting  152     How Bigger Pictures Preserve Little Details  154     How a Digital Darkroom Improves Even Correctly Exposed Photos  156     How Photoshop Multiplies a Photo’s Dynamic Range  158     How Layers Serve and Protect Photos  160 Chapter 10   How Digital Retouching Rescues Family Heirlooms  162     How Software Removes Dust and Tears  164     How the Digital Darkroom Revives Your Ancestors  166     How Darkroom Software Brings Pictures Back to Life  168 Chapter 11   How the Digital Darkroom Makes Good Photos into Great Fantasies  170     How to Change a Red Rose to Blue  172     How Digital Photos Make Fun of You  174     How Software Makes One Photo Out of Many  176     How Panorama Programs Stitch Several Photos into One Superwide  178   Part 4: How Digital Print-Making Works  180 Chapter 12   How Computers and Printers Create Photographs  184     How a Camera’s LCD Displays Photos  186     How Colors Are Created  188     How Color Calibration Works  190 Chapter 13   How Photo-Quality Printers Work  192     How a Printer Rains Ink to Create a Picture  194     How Photo Inkjet Printers Work  196     How Dye-Sublimation Printers Work  198 Glossary  200 Index  214

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Author Ron White is the author of the award-winning, decade-long best-seller How Computers Work and a dozen other books on digital photography, computers, and underground music. He has been a photojournalist for three decades, both shooting photos and writing for some of the best-known publications in the United States. He gained attention early in his career by leaving the water running in the darkroom at the San Antonio Light, flooding the publisher’s office. He has since acquired drier recognition as a newspaper and magazine executive and as an award-winning writer and publication designer. He has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Robert F. Kennedy Awards for his criticism and investigative reporting and by the National Magazine Awards for his self-effacing humor as a feature writer and columnist at PC Computing. He has been a host on NPR’s Beyond Computing and a frequent guest on television and radio to explain new technology. Currently, he is working on The Daily Digital Digest, a newsletter and Internet blog to expand on the information found in his books. Tim Downs and Ron White have worked together on editorial and advertising technical guides for more than 10 years. Ron lives with his wife, Sue, in San Antonio. He can be reached at ron@ronwhite.com.   Illustrator Timothy Edward Downs is an award-winning magazine designer, a photographer, and the illustrator of the best-seller How Computers Work. He has directed and designed several national consumer business, technology, and lifestyle magazines, always infusing a sense of “How it Works” into every project. By tapping his vast computer system and process knowledge, Tim has developed the richly illustrative style that is unique to the How It Works series. In How Digital Photography Works, Tim has further blurred the lines between informational illustration and photography.  

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