Photo Interactive - Prospects in Photography

Technology

1) IMP
2) Gallery
3) Digital Photo

All content made available by NASA, Kodak, and miscellaneous abstracts collected on the Internet.

.....Digital Imaging products like Photo CD and the IMP on MESUR Pathfinder, enable us to capture and store film images electronically, then process them on a computer, much like we process text and drawings.
An image on film is represented electronically by continuous analog wave forms. A digital image is represented in a binary number sequence, stored in computer's memory. A digital image is derived from sampling the analog image.
Analog values are continuous. Digital values are discrete electronic pulses that have been translated into strings of zeros and ones -- the only integers in a binary system.
Before we take a closer look at the photographic digital image, we need to understand the diiference between two ways a computer stores image data: Vector and Raster graphics.