Digital Photography DeCal

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Digital Photography DeCal EECS98 Nathan Yan

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Digital Photography DeCal

EECS98Nathan Yan

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All cameras, film or digital, work the same:Photons are projected onto a photo-sensitive plane which records the light information

How it works

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

Image process

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History 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

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History 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

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Input:Light «photons»

Output:Electrical

signals

The Imaging Sensor

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Bucketloads of Electrons!

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

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Bigger aperture = more light!

Aperture

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

Shutter speed

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Electrical signal

Accumulated charge

Amplifier Voltage

Measurement

Amplified electrical signal

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

ISO sensitivity

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Use software to multiply the pixel values

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Digital Multiplication

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Photons

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Voltage Reading

Voltage Signal

Image Brightness

Shutter speed

Aperture

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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 ISO4000 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