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History of Digital Cameras

History of Digital Cameras. First there was the camera (19th century) Then there was the movie camera Then there was the video camera. History of Digital Cameras. Then NASA wanted to send pictures back from the moon (or wherever they wanted to go) But there was analog noise

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History of Digital Cameras

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  1. History of Digital Cameras • First there was the camera (19th century) • Then there was the movie camera • Then there was the video camera From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

  2. History of Digital Cameras • Then NASA wanted to send pictures back from the moon (or wherever they wanted to go) • But there was analog noise • So they converted the analog signals to digital From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

  3. History of Digital Cameras • 1972 the first patent for an electronic camera • 1981 Sony develops the Mavica electronic camera • Analog video frame capture • 1986 Kodak develops the first megapixel camera • Verrrrry expensive and had a 5x7 limitation From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

  4. History of Digital Cameras • 1990 Kodak produces the Photo CD • A proprietary technology for digitizing slides, negatives and prints • Saved files to a CD • This popularized digital images • 1991 Kodak created a 1.3 megapixel (journalists) From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

  5. History of Digital Cameras • Apple develops the first consumer level digital camera about the same time • Digital scan backs and digital capture backs were being developed during the 90s for portrait and catalog photography From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

  6. History of Digital Cameras • Late 1990s saw the development of 3,4 and 5 megapixel comsumer and prosumer cameras • These cameras can produce an 8x10 for less than $1000 From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

  7. What is a Digital Camera? • What is a pixel? • What is a megapixel? From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

  8. What is a Digital Camera? • 1 megapixel = 1,000,000 sensors = 1,000,000 pixels • The more sensors the finer the detail and the larger the print • Each sensor has three filters • Red • Green • Blue • Open the shutter and the camera records how much of each color recorded on each sensor From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

  9. Film Advantages • Resolution (getting better) • Shutter Latency • Capacity (just different) • Batteries (a real problem) • Cost (still a factor but dropping) From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

  10. Digital Camera Advantages • Immediacy (see it now) • Usability (with a computer) • Reusability (storage card) • Duplication (every file is the original) • Adaptability (print or web or email) • Flexibility (remove a cast, adjust the flash) • Size (not dependant on the size of the film roll) From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

  11. Next week • What do you really need? From The Little Digital Camera Book, Baron, C and Peck, D

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