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digital photography

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noun

  1. the taking or manipulation of photographs that are stored as data files on a computer.


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Half of the students in her first class on digital photography dropped out, and she struggled to learn to use a professional camera.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Now using near-infrared digital photography in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia experts have created high resolution scans of the decorations for the first time.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

The dominance of digital photography is not helping, either.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023

Before digital photography, the film in satellite spy cameras had to be jettisoned down to Earth in secret capsules to be developed, which is kind of wild.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2023

Because Mr. and Mrs. Lassiter ran a photo business, printing and framing photos and teaching digital photography, their house was filled with printed pictures.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

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