My camera, being a compact point and shoot one, does not produce RAW images, but jpegs. RAW imaging is better. RAW images are recorded unprocessed and uncompressed from the sensor onto a memory card. You then use special software to process it further.

The new DSLR cameras have focal lengths like the old film cameras. A 50mm lens on a DSLR camera has the same angle view as a 75mm lens on a film camera. With the compact digital cameras, sensors come in different sizes. One camera with a focal length of 6.2 mm is equal to 35mm lens on a film camera, while another might be 7.6mm equalling 35mm.

In digital cameras the white balance setting is usually set to auto, but there are possible settings: “auto”, “shade” “tungsten, and “fluorescent”. With film cameras, I remember lessons where we had to learn about getting a proper black and white photo by setting the aperture against a grey background.