Digital Photography Takes Off

The New Generation

More recent adopters of digital photography may have skipped the early camera backs entirely. Richard Salas has been a photographer for 20 years, mostly for the catalog industry. Three years ago, when Salas purchased his first digital camera, he considered the requirements of the work he was producing. Since the majority of his shots print no larger than the trim size of a magazine cover, he had no need for the image data gathering capability of a linear array-type camera. Thus, he chose the T2 three-shot area array CCD camera from MegaVision, Santa Barbara, CA. In 1998, Salas reports, he shot film only two or three times. “ Since I’ve been shooting digital, my business has increased 200 to 300 percent.”