digital era

This website uses the term “the digital era” when referring to the time after which digital cameras became the dominant tool for making photographs.

Thus on this website, “the digital era” in photography refers to “the 21st century and beyond.”

(The 19th and 20th centuries are called “the film era” on this website even though film wasn’t used in the earliest part of that span.)

This page points out that

• digital technology was being used to edit photographs a couple of decades before the turn of the year 2000;

• some photographers were integrating digital technology into their workflow in the 1990s;

• but “digital cameras” did not become “the dominant tool for making photographs” until the early years of the 21st century.

See also:

When did the digital era begin?

How are the capabilities of photo manipulation different now than they were in the film era?