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The real world is analog. Light and sound come in waves that our senses interpret.
Unfortunately its difficult to invent a technology that records an analog wave
Fortunately, storing a series of numbers is much simpler. You can carve them in stone,
write them on paper, or store them on a CD
When you record, them theres no loss of data
Digitizing = the process of converting something into numbers
Film vs Digital
Film and digital cameras record an image by using a lens to focus light onto a focal
plane
The lens focuses the light through an aperture and a shutter onto a piece of film held on
the focal place
In a digital camera, instead of a piece of film, an image sensor sits on the focal plane. An
image sensor is a special type of silicon chip with light-sensitive capabilities
The most common kind of image sensor is called a CCD, a charge coupled device
When you take a picture, the image sensor samples the light coming through the lens
and converts that light into electrical signals
After the image sensor is exposed, these signals are boosted by an amplifier and sent to
an analog - to digital converter that turns the signals into digits
Once the cameras on-board computer has calculated the final image, the new image
data is stored on a memory card
Day 2
From Black and White to Color
James Clerk Maxwell asked photographer Thomas Sutton to take three photographs of
the same piece of fabric
o He took three photographs with three different filters: red, blue and green. Then,
he projected them onto a screen with three different projectors covered in
corresponding filters, leading to the first color image in 1869!