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Digital Photography Glossary Book Published

5th Jan 2008

Digital photography is now within reach by just about everybody, but are they using the medium correctly? A book called “The Glossary of Digital Photoraphy” is now here to help. Written by John G.Blair, this book is not only a glossary but as good as introduction to the world of digital photography as you are likely to find.

Covering digital photography in any depth requires that a lot of computer terminology is covered too, and here again this excellent book delivers. Indeed, references to memory systems, file transfer protocols, image formats and hardware, were far from trivial, instead, they provided enough detail to make any computer buff content that it was speaking “their language”. The book too "unscrambles all the acronyms" that you’ll hear being used by people who might or might not fully know what they mean.

It is of course an old concept (and perhaps a very relevant one) that pictures, or in this case photographs, say a 1,000 words. Here to the book delivers, the photographs being excellent and well used to illustrate photographic concepts in a far better way than any amount of text could ever do. Want to know what colour banding is? How about green eye, pixilation, fringing and suchlike? This book will explain all of these terms and show you what they look like.

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