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What does photography mean?

Photography refers to the process of recording images with some special equipment. Generally, we take photos with mechanical cameras or digital cameras. Sometimes photography is also called photography, that is, the process of exposing a photosensitive medium by using the light emitted or reflected by an object. Someone once said an incisive language: the photographer's ability is to transform the fleeting ordinary things in daily life into immortal visual images.

A brief history of photography

The birth of digital photography poses a severe challenge to traditional photography, forcing us to understand digital cameras from scratch. A digital camera is composed of countless zeros and 65438+ zeros arranged together in a computer or electronic device. Generally speaking, a digital camera is a camera that uses electronic components (usually CCD or CMOS) instead of film as photosensitive material, and digitally stores the images recorded by the objects it shoots in a memory card that can be reused many times.