Digital photography is still new enough that most of us have yet to form. an opinion about

it, much less (1)_____ a point of view. But this hasn't stopped many film and computer fans from agreeing (2)_____ the early (3)_____ wisdom about digital cameras—they're neat (4)_____ for your PC, but they're not suit able for everyday picture-taking.

The fans are wrong: more than anything else, digital cameras are radically (5)_____ what photography means and what it can be. The venerable medium of photography as we know (6)_____ is beginning to seem out of (7)_____ with the way we live. In our computer and camcorder culture, saving pictures (8)_____ digital files and watching them on TV is no less (9)_____ and in many ways more (10)_____ than fumbling with rolls of film that must be sent off to be (11)_____.

Paper is also terribly (12)_____ Pictures that are incorrectly framed, focused, or lighted are nonetheless (13)_____ to film and ultimately processed into prints.

The digital medium changes the (14)_____. Still images that are (15)_____ digitally can immediately be shown on a computer monitor, TV screen, or a small liquid-crystal display (LCD) built right into the camera. And since the points of light that (16)_____ an image are saved as a series of digital bits in (17)_____ memory, (18)_____ being permanently etched onto film, they can be erased, retouched, and transmitted on-line.

What's it like to (19)_____ with one of these digital cameras？ It's a little like a first date—exciting, confusing and fraught with (20)_____.

A．refute

B．evaluate

C．represent

D．develop