Digital Camera History

Digital Camera History
Digital camera technology is directly related to and evolved from the same technology as when it serves to record the images on television. In 1951, the first video tape recorder (VTR) captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses (digital) and saving the information onto magnetic tape.

Bing Crosby laboratories (the research team funded by an engineer named Crosby and headed by John Mullin) created the first early VTR. In 1956, VTR technology was perfected (the VR1000 invented by Charles P. Ginsburg and the Ampex Corporation) and in common use by the television industry. Between television / video cameras and digital cameras that use CCD (Charged Couple Device) to adjust color and light intensity. At the same time the digital camera era has begun with a very rapid pace.

In 1981, Sony introduced the first commercial electronic camera called the Mavica. Images were recorded onto a mini disc and then put into a video reader connected to a monitor or color television. Although it can not be said Mavica digital cameras, it is actually a modified video camera that takes pictures spontaneously.

Digital Camera History

Since the mid-1970s, Kodak has invented several solid-state image sensors that convert light into digital images for use on a professional level and household consumers. In 1886, Kodak scientists for the first time in the world to introduce megapixel sensor, where the sensor is capable of recording 1.4 million pixels that could produce a 5x7-inch digital photo quality print at that time. In 1987, Kodak released seven products for recording, storing, manipulating, transmitting and printing electronic still video images of an object.

In 1990, Kodak developed the Photo CD system and proposed the first time worldwide standard for defining color in the digital environment of computers and computer peripherals. In 1991, Kodak released the first time for the professionals, namely a system in a photo shoot Digital Camera System (DCS), aimed at photojournalists. It was a Nikon F-# which comes with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.

The first digital cameras for consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via USB (Unit serial bus) is the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17, 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, the final 1995), and the Sony Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996). However, Kodak entered the era with an aggressive marketing campaign to promote the DC40 and to help introduce the idea of ​​digital photography to the public.

Kinko's and Microsoft is working with the Kodak Digital to create digital images using the software in various workplaces and photo kiosks, where customers are allowed to produce photo CDs, digital images, and documents can then add to their computer. IBM is working with Kodak membaut internet-based network image exchange.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is the first company in terms of making colors in their products namely Inkjet Printer, completing the staining system for printed pictures from a digital camera. So began the change in digital camera with a new form. Digital cameras like conventional cameras, available models of Point-And-shot and single-lens reflex digital or Digital Single Lens Reflector (DSLR).

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