Starting around 2000, digital cameras were incorporated in cell phones and in the following years, cell phone cameras became widespread, particularly due to their connectivity to social media websites and email. Professionals gravitated to digital slowly, and were won over when their professional work required using digital files to fulfill the demands of employers and/or clients, for faster turn-around than conventional methods would allow. The first consumer digital cameras were marketed in the late 1990s. Digital photographs are typically created solely by computer-based photoelectric and mechanical techniques, without wet bath chemical processing. Until the advent of such technology, photographs were made by exposing light sensitive photographic film and paper, which was processed in liquid chemical solutions to develop and stabilize the image. They are combined with other digital images obtained from scanography and other methods that are often used in digital art or media art. The captured images are digitized and stored as a computer file ready for further digital processing, viewing, electronic publishing, or digital printing. Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film.

Bokeh video full hd asli