What is a digital photo, really?

I gave a talk at EnthusiastiCon on the 6th of June about the very basics of digital photography and how pixels are actually made of lies 🤐

Here’s the Talk!

Slides

📷 Here are the slides! 📷 (~8MB, PDF)

Other Really Good Resources

• RawTherapee’s RawPedia has a really good intro to Demosaicing as well as info on how a bunch of real-world algorithms work!
• How cameras see color: RGB vs RGBW, Bayer vs Fuji X-Trans, Purple isn’t real?!
• iFixit’s Nikon D600 teardown is extremely cool.
• A Google Search for “Wormies Fuji X-trans” which is kindaaaaa fascinating reading, with regards to seeing how people respond to an abstraction being violated.

If you enjoyed this…

… then you might also like:

• How To: Find and Fix Light Leakages on a Film Camera, which is less technical and more in the “pull things apart and repair them” category
• How Does Lossless Compression in Fuji RAF Files work?, which is a deep dive on something very esoteric, but digital-camera related