ABSTRACT
Photography is going through its most profound changes since William Fox Talbot shocked the Daguerreotypists with his concept of "the negative." Since its beginnings, photographers have continually worked with some kind of camera and darkroom. Photographers who prefer state-of-the-art digital SLRs will want state-of-the- art desktop computers for their digital imaging work and will want to consider the total cost of ownership. Professionals and those photographers working in high-end digital SLRs or medium format digital cameras need workstations that can handle the large files produced by digital images created with such cameras. When Adobe Systems acquired Aldus, Digital Darkroom was abandoned in favor of Photoshop. Planar Systems' PE line of flat-panel monitors are designed for corporate users as well as home office users and students, but are great for budget-minded photographers too. Computer graphic communication uses a pastiche of buzzwords borrowed from the printing, design, and photographic fields, blended with a sprinkling of computer jargon.
