Start of Digital Photography
Apr 26, 2018 10:28:39 #
LarryFitz
Loc: Beacon NY
Interesting article about Digital Photography long before the DSLR cameras
https://fstoppers.com/education/story-worlds-first-digital-camera-told-its-inventor-215236
https://fstoppers.com/education/story-worlds-first-digital-camera-told-its-inventor-215236
Apr 26, 2018 10:38:57 #
Interesting. Almost 20 years later, I purchased my first digital camera. A 1992 Logitech Fotoman. $900, and greyscale only. Stored images (32) on internal memory. One downside-when batteries ran down, Images were lost from the internal memory.
And everyone today thinks they have problems?
Had shot film from the 1960's, until that time and still do. Maybe someday, digital will meet and exceed film quality.
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Logitech_Fotoman
And everyone today thinks they have problems?
Had shot film from the 1960's, until that time and still do. Maybe someday, digital will meet and exceed film quality.
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Logitech_Fotoman
Apr 26, 2018 10:52:23 #
It still amazes me that Kodak was such a pioneer in digital photography and yet their cameras were never up there with Canon and Nikon.
Apr 26, 2018 11:00:44 #
LarryFitz
Loc: Beacon NY
Ched49 wrote:
It still amazes me that Kodak was such a pioneer in digital photography and yet their cameras were never up there with Canon and Nikon.
Kodak DCS 200 and 400 used Nikon Bodies, then had later had Canon bodies. this made use of the Canon and Nikon lens that must Photographers already had.
A DCS 200 was 2000x3000 pixels at $10K
Apr 26, 2018 11:33:33 #
IF you're interested - here is an excellent article on the History of Digital Photography
Here you will find that in 1972 A Texas Instrument employee, Willis Adcock patented a film-less camera however the technology was still not available to make it a viable concept - I wonder what happened with his patent
Here you will find that in 1972 A Texas Instrument employee, Willis Adcock patented a film-less camera however the technology was still not available to make it a viable concept - I wonder what happened with his patent
Apr 27, 2018 12:34:50 #
The first digital 'camera' I ever saw was built by an engineer I worked with back in 1982 or so. He shaved the top off a RAM chip, exposing the array of memory elements. Each element is light sensitive, and so he had an instant 4K digital sensor, with each element either black or white. He wasn't going to win any prizes for his pictures, but it was cool.
Apr 27, 2018 15:40:27 #
Ched49 wrote:
It still amazes me that Kodak was such a pioneer in digital photography and yet their cameras were never up there with Canon and Nikon.
This has to do with the stupidity of the officers that ran the company.
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