Hinchliffe And Begley Analysis

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Photography started in the 1800s and have come a long way since then. The first photo was photographed with a small wooden box that took hours to expose the image and now, here we are with the new fancy digital cameras, where a photo is photographed in less than a second. Before the digital age however, people were using film to photograph, but it appears that film is making a comeback. In Hinchliffe and Begley’s article, it makes a statement, which is “a sentence that can be viewed as either true or false” (Bassham, pg. 29), about how film photography is making a comeback. The article argues that there has been an increase in the use for film. Premises are “statements in an argument offered as evidence or reasons why we should accept another

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