Part Three of Digital Photoguide describes digital photography terms like megapixels, jpeg, tiff, compression, 8-bit and how they relate to each other. It also explains the size of a digital sensor and how it impacts the lenses you would use to capture a particular scene compared to with a 35mm film camera.
Digital Sensor Size and Lenses The diagram below shows the sensor of a typical digital SLR compared in size to a 35mm film frame.
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