A couple of years back, Nature photography obviously meant film cameras, choice of interchange\able lenses, processing techniques and analysis of various films.

Today, the life is digital! Except for a specialized purpose, almost everyone has started imaging without a film in the camera! One can even take pictures on the mobile phone !! The paradigm of photography has completely changed.

Gone are the days when you missed in a great photographic moment running on the last few frames of your film and you were nervous of the 36 count !! Also, no more risk of exposing your film as no more darkrooms are required. Now one does not have to bother on the number of clicks…. And no need to wait for films to be processed at the color labs. The picture is there with you…instantly- Just switch the display on and the picture is ready for a view !!!

The digital camera domain is so dynamic and fast moving that by the time you experiment with a particular camera model and concludes the results– more improvisations and new features are already launched on the market. Basically the heart of a Digital camera is a sensor (called “chip”) which is an electronic replacement of a film surface. This chip captures the image in terms of digital signals and stores it on the memory of the camera (called “card”). In case of the film the image was captured and processed chemically whereas in case of a digital chip –the image is totally electronic.