What is digital photography?

Digital photography is a digital image obtained using a digital camera. As a digital file, it can be edited, printed, sent by email or stored on any digital storage device using a computer.

Traditional photography was a considerable burden for photographers working in distant locations - such as press correspondents - without access to production facilities. With increased competition from television, there was an increased urgency to transfer images to newspapers more quickly.

Photographers in remote locations would carry a mini photography laboratory with them, and some means of transmitting their images over the telephone line. In 1990, Kodak released the DCS 100, the first commercially available digital camera. Its cost precluded its use in photojournalism and professional applications, but digital photography emerged at this time.

In 10 years, digital cameras have become consumer products, and are irreversibly gradually replacing their traditional counterparts in many applications as the price of electronic components falls and image quality improves.

Kodak announced in January 2004 that it would end production of reusable 35mm cameras after the end of that year. However, "liquid" photography will endure, as dedicated amateurs and skilled artists preserve the use of traditional materials and techniques.

Until reaching what is today cutting-edge technology, there were several processes that further developed photographic composition.