Research Questions
Topic: How is photography transitioning from analog to digital?
In what ways is photography transitioning to digital other than obvious things like film to CMOSs and CCDs?
What other analog mediums have transferred to digital and how did it happen?
What drives the transition from analog to digital photography?
How does digital photography make photography more accessible to casual artists?
How has post production moved from analog to digital?
Annotated Bibliography

De Castella, Tom. "Five Ways the Digital Camera Changed Us." Editorial. BBC News 28 Feb. 2012: n. pag. BBC News. BBC, 28 Feb. 2012. Web. 25 Sept. 2016.

	This is an editorial about the way digital photography has changed us as a society. Like the title implies, it is separated into five sections. The author is a journalist who may not know a lot about photography, but he knows how to research things and write an educated article on them. There are lots of good references to real problems people have had with analog photography, and how digital improves that. The main question this answers is how digital photography has made photography more accessible to everyone, citing a 2012 estimate that 2.5 billion people around the world have a digital camera.

"Introduction to Digital Photography: Differences between Analogue and Digital." Canon 		Professional Network. Canon Europa N.V. and Canon Europe Ltd, 2015. Web. 25 Sept. 2016.

	This text is a digital and film camera manufacturer explaining the benefits of digital photography to people who are serious about photography but currently shoot analog. There is no specific date but it can be assumed it was written between 2007 and 2010. This is in the structure of a support article for current customers. This helped me understand some of the benefits of digital that were important to switch professionals and semi professionals. Benefits are: instant review, reusable storage, instant histograms, live view.

Kestenholz, Daniel. "How Technology Changed Photography." THEME. THEME, 25 Jan. 2013. Web. 25 Sept. 2016.

	This article is from a photography news website, describing how technology has changed photography. The article is interesting because it is written for an audience that already is educated in photography, so it assumes knowledge and lists a lot of advancements quickly and with little detail. This article helps answer why digital photography and how technology makes photography more accessible.

Mayes, Stephen. "The Next Revolution in Photography Is Coming." Time. Time, 25 Aug. 2015. Web. 25 Sept. 2016.

	This article is written in a procedural style with no easy to follow structure. The author has a lot to say about photography as an art but I believe his main idea is how necessary post production is to photography and how modern cameras are essentially computers that make an image look good. The author has some titles that make him credible in this field. He claims that the days of photography to display something in real life are gone, and as soon as you click the shutter your image is automatically manipulated. This helps answer how post production has changed and how photography is more accessible.

Thurston, Anthony. "Here’s What ‘bokeh’ Is, and How the IPhone 7 Plus Fakes It." Digital Trends. Digital Trends, 15 Sept. 2016. Web. 25 Sept. 2016.

	This article is written by a photographer for a technology new website. He clearly knows a lot about the art and is explaining a feature in a consumer device that attempts to digitally mimic an optical aberration that professional photography tools tend to have. This helps answer my question on how digital photography is more accessible, and how things other than sensors are transitioning from analog to digital. 		When I began this assignment it took me some time to figure out exactly what I wanted to research and what I wanted to learn from it. My inspiration for this topic came from the release of the Apple iPhone 7 Plus, more specifically the ability for it to digitally reproduce a popular artifact of focusing light onto a large surface. Since most mobile phone cameras use small sensors, the iPhone is unable to produce effects like this naturally. This technology piqued my interest to discover other ways where analog photography technology is being replaced by digital technology.
	My knowledge on this topic changed a lot over the past weekend that I have been researching. The first article I read was an introduction to digital photography article on a support page for Canon, a very popular camera manufacturer for professionals and enthusiasts. From the cameras mentioned in the article, I could tell it was written sometime between 2007 and 2010. This was a time when people were still skeptical about the transition from film to digital photography. It is clear that Canon is trying to convert their film customers to purchase their new digital cameras. My biggest takeaway from this article is big selling points of early professional digital cameras. Advantages like being able to reuse your storage (film is one-time use) and being able to see your shot seconds after you take it are things photographers take for granted today, but a long time ago they were unheard of.
	Another interesting perspective was reading what journalists have to say about photography now that cameras are in everyone’s pockets and professionals are shooting digital. An astounding fact that Tom de Castella references is that two and a half billion people have a digital camera. That’s a pretty large number, I had to reread the phrasing multiple times to make sure I understood it correctly. A huge way that many people got digital cameras in their hands is through mobile phones with integrated cameras. This would not have been possible without the introduction of tiny digital cameras, you clearly can’t put a roll of film in your mobile phone. Also, traditionally photo processing was done using chemicals on photosensitive film, however, with digital photos, processing is much more versatile and accessible. An interesting thing I learned about digital cameras is that as soon as you take the picture your camera is applying adjustments to the image and doing work to make it look better. The authors point in saying this is that every digital photo is retouched and the fact that this happens automatically helps make high-quality photos more accessible to everyone.
	In conclusion, I definitely picked up a lot of information on my research topic over the weekend. It was really interesting to see ideas from all different perspectives on the shift from analog to digital photography. I also liked reading up on all of the different ways photography has become accessible to even the most casual photographers. Due to the growth of digital photography, people inevitably experience photography all of the time in their day to day lives.