Digital Photography DeCal EECS98 Nathan Yan. All cameras, film or digital, work the same: Photons...

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Digital Photography DeCal EECS98 Nathan Yan

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Digital Photography DeCal

EECS98Nathan Yan

All cameras, film or digital, work the same:All cameras, film or digital, work the same:

Photons are projected onto a photo-sensitive plane which records the light information

How it worksHow it works

How it worksHow it worksBy confining light to only photons which pass through a certain point, we begin to resolve “detail”

History of Camera DevelopmentHistory of Camera Development• Many pinhole-type cameras dating back to the 11th century

• Joseph Niépce recorded the first photograph in 1826, using a photo-sensitive silver/chalk mixture (8 hour exposure)

• Development of recording mediums more responsive to light: wet plates, dry plates

• George Eastman introduces photographic film in 1885, and debuts the “Kodak” camera in 1888 – a cheap and easy to operate camera that began to popularize cameras

• Oskar Barnack developed the Leica camera in 1925, which popularized 35mm film standard

• Ihagee introduced the first single-lens reflex camera, Exakta, in 1933, allowing photographers to view image “through the lens”

• Auto-focus developed in the Konica C35AF in 1977

History of Digital Camera DevelopmentHistory of Digital Camera Development

• Began with charged couple device (CCD) cameras that recorded to analog media

• Steve Sasson produced the first for Kodak in 1973

• Solid state CCD that recorded output onto cassette tape

• Resolution: 10,000 pixels, or 0.01 megapixels

• First practical use in 1984, for journalism

• Canon RC-701 recorded images onto “video floppies”

• During 1984 Olympics images could be transmitted via telephone lines, and image quality (780x585, .4MP) was acceptable for newsprint

• JPEG image compression standard introduced in 1988

• First true digital camera: Fuji DS-1P debuted in 1988, recording a computerized image file to onboard memory

• First camera with live image feed to LCD: Casio QV-10 in 1995

• First “professional” digital SLR camera natively designed: 2.74MP Nikon D1 in 1999

• First affordable “consumer” digital SLR: 6MP Canon Digital Rebel 300D in 2003 - $1000

Input:Light «photons»

Output:Electrical

signals

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Many electronsVoltage: HighImplication: Many photons detected, bright exposureResult: bright image

Few electronsVoltage: LowImplication: Few photons detected, dark exposureResult: dark image

Max electronsVoltage: MaxImplication: Max photons detected, brightest exposureResult: White image

No electronsVoltage: ZeroImplication: No photons detected, darkest exposureResult: Black image

Bigger aperture = more light!

Aperture

Longer shutter speed (exposure time) = more light collected!

Shutter speed

Electrical signal

Accumulated charge

Amplified electrical signal

ISO is a “sensitivity” – higher ISO means more signal (brightness) for the input (light) you actually get

ISO sensitivity

Use software to multiply the pixel values

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Digital Multiplication

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Exposure “Stops”

Stops Exposure

Shutter speed Aperture ISO sensitivity

-4 1/16x 1/1600s f/22 ISO50

-3 1/8x 1/800s f/16 ISO100

-2 1/4x 1/400s f/11 ISO200

-1 1/2x 1/200s f/8.0 ISO400

0 1x 1/100s f/5.6 ISO800

+1 2x 1/50s f/4.0 ISO1600

+2 4x 1/25s f/2.8 ISO3200

+3 8x 1/12s f/2.0 ISO6400

+4 16x 1/6s f/1.4 ISO12800