JIDAM
"An Official Journal of IDA - Madras
Branch" ©2019.
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A picture is worth a thousand words. DSLR cameras give us the ability to store digital negatives of every image that we click called RAW format file while mobile phones are worst for dental photography. The DSLR camera has a huge dynamic range and is capable of detecting and recording true colours at appropriate settings efficient with Hue, Value and Chroma. The three most important camera settings are the aperture, shutter speed and ISO – together called the Exposure triangle. The camera used for professional dental photography should record distortion free images. The mobile phone camera has image processors and sensors which are inferior to DSLR cameras and hence are unable to detect and record true colours of an image. Photography has always been an integral part of dentistry and its application in dental practice is simple, fast, and extremely useful in documenting procedures of work, patient education, and pursuing clinical investigations, clinical case discussions with professional colleagues thus providing many benefits to the dentists and patients. This article highlights the importance of dental digital photography with DSLR camera in today’s world of interdisciplinary dentistry and medicolegal cases.
Legal documentation, clinical investigations, DSLR camera, RAW format file, digital photography, exposure triangle.
JIDAM/Volume:6/Issue:2/Pages 52-57/April-Jun 2019