Ever wondered how photographs are taken without having any film in the camera? Ever wondered why the resolution is so clear? Well, all this is possible through digital photography. A picture that has been recorded digitally is made up of tiny pixels in huge numbers that are light sensitive. These pixels form an image that can be viewed on a screen or a monitor.

A digital photograph can be taken in two ways. The first way is by using a digital camera to click a picture and the second way is to take a photograph and get it scanned in a scanner so that it becomes digital. In Digital Cameras, the presence of a film is not there as compared to the simple cameras. So the picture that has been taken from a digital camera gets stored in the digital memory that is present in the place of the film. The digital memory may be present in the camera in the form of a memory card or may be built-in, the probability of the latter being more.

For an amateur, what experts have recommended for usage is undeniably the digital one as the picture clarity instills confidence in the photographer. Even single-lens reflex cameras, the standard typically used by professionals, have been completely digitized. The Sony Alpha 350 and Samsung GX-20 are two examples of digital SLR cameras. The resolution will be very high in a digital camera which makes taking photographs at complex angles a bit easy to handle. What benefits the photographer is the presence of the LCD viewfinder in the camera which makes it easier to delete all the unwanted photos and most importantly, gives the user the ability to review the images which he has taken.