Digital Food Photography: Dietary Surveillance and Beyond

Digital photography versus analogue photography 1 Running heading: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY VERSUS ANALOGUE PHOTOGRAPHY. Digital versus Analogue Photography: a comparative analysis

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Digital Photography

Digital photography is a relatively new topic for scholarly study in the area of computer mediated communication. Photographic technologies were only first computerized in the 1990s, but have rapidly supplanted older film technologies for a majority of professional uses. Digital photography has not simply substituted silicon chips for film, however, but has brought about rapid changes throughou...

Post-photography and beyond (1)

For a long time now, photography has been the modern way to make an image; is has been the rapid way, because it is the mechanical way; and also the easily repeatable way; and finally, it has been the truthful way, the only way for the picture to be true, both to its object and to its cause. In return, photography has acquired the reputation of being somewhat soul-less, unable to convey the per...

Digital Sources of Food Purchasing Data for the Surveillance of Dietary Patterns

Introduction In Canada, the economic impact of unhealthy eating is estimated at $6.3 billion annually and in the US the estimated cost is $87 billion. Despite the critical need to identify effective diet-related interventions through empirical evaluation, public health practitioners and researchers lack timely access to representative data sources collected at a fine spatial and temporal resolu...