The instantaneous quality of digital photography - something that makes even fast-developing Polaroids look sluggish by comparison - is for many one of the chief advantages of going digital. The same picture that appears within microseconds on your own computer screen could also appear on someone else’s screen (provided the computers were linked on the internet).
The primary drawback with direct digital photography is image quality. The Apple QuickTake 100, for example, takes pictures with roughly 300,000 pixels (picture elements) in its high-resolution mode. A top-of-the-line digital camera captures about 8.5 million pixels.
This creates a fairly high quality image that can then be easily enhanced using one of the many different photo editor software applications currently available on the market today.