How does a digital camera work vs. a manual camera?
Let me explain:
I know that the shutter speed/aperature effect the way the light hits the physical film, but on a digital camera, they have the same settings, yet there is no film to expose to light. What’s the deal with that? How does a digital camera work, exactly, and why does it have the same settings as a manual eventhought it doesn’t actually expose ANY true film?
With a 35mm film camera, you’d set the aperture and shutter speed, focus, record the image on a frame of film and advance to the next frame.
With a digital camera, the image is captured by a digital sensor instead of film, and instead of advancing the frame, the picture is sent to a memory card.
Only the way the image is recorded and stored has changed. Aperture, shutter speed, etc. still work in exactly the same way.
Leica really proved this point making a digital back that you can attach to their existing film cameras. You simply remove the back panel (and the roll of film) and attach a different back panel with a sensor and memory card instead.
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