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Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving
pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a film,
or an electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from
objects activate a sensitive chemical or electronic sensor during a
timed exposure, usually through a photographic lens in a device known as
a camera that also stores the resulting information chemically or
electronically. Photography has many uses for business, science, art and
pleasure. The word "photography" comes from the Greek φώς (phos) "light" + γραφίς (graphis) "stylus", "paintbrush" or γραφή (graphê) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light." Traditionally, the products of photography have been called negatives and photographs, commonly shortened to photos.
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Articles on camera hardware draw better than articles on technique. Yet a
professional photographer can make better photos with a $100 point and shoot
camera than many owners of expensive Canon 1Ds's or Nikon Dx3's. Why is this so?
Technique. Then why so much effort on hardware? Cameras and lenses are
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