The Digital Camera
TOPIC: THE DIGITAL CAMERA
SUBTOPICS: -HISTORY -TYPES OF DIGITAL CAMERAS -PARTS OF A DIGITAL CAMERA -RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL CAMERAS (Advantages and Disadvantages of Each).
HISTORY OF DIGITAL CAMERAS
The World‘s First Digital Camera by Kodak and Steve Sasson
The Evolution of Digital Cameras
A film-free camera was patented as early as 1972 by Texas Instruments, but Kodak researcher Steve J. Sasson, built what was to become the first true digital camera in the middle of the 1970s. Weighing over eight pounds, Sasson‘s device used a number of complex circuit boards to capture one image onto a cassette—taking over twenty seconds (Rosenblum 2007). Kodak released its first megapixel sensor in 1986, a predecessor to its digital camera system (DCS) of the early 1990s. The sensor produced an image from which a good quality 5x7 print could be made. The
DCS-100 used the best of available film camera technology, Nikon‘s professional F-3 series, and equipped it with a Kodak 1.3 megapixel sensor and a 200 MB hard drive— all for about $13,000. Early 1+ megapixel cameras pointed to the potential for digital imaging but were often prohibitively expensive, slow in image processing, and lacking in the range of image resolution needed by many professional photographers. The First Digital Camera Used Cassette & Was Slow & Heavy
The world‘s very first digital camera was built in 1975 by Eastman Kodak employee
Steven Sasson who was asked to build an electronic camera using a charge coupled device (CCD). Such a device has become an important component in digital imaging and it was the CCD which allowed Sasson to record a 100×100 (.01 MP) black and white image using his invention.
Using the CCD to capture the image, Sasson‘s electronic camera then wrote them to cassette. This rather analog process took 23 seconds to complete. The device he
SUBTOPICS: -HISTORY -TYPES OF DIGITAL CAMERAS -PARTS OF A DIGITAL CAMERA -RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL CAMERAS (Advantages and Disadvantages of Each).
HISTORY OF DIGITAL CAMERAS
The World‘s First Digital Camera by Kodak and Steve Sasson
The Evolution of Digital Cameras
A film-free camera was patented as early as 1972 by Texas Instruments, but Kodak researcher Steve J. Sasson, built what was to become the first true digital camera in the middle of the 1970s. Weighing over eight pounds, Sasson‘s device used a number of complex circuit boards to capture one image onto a cassette—taking over twenty seconds (Rosenblum 2007). Kodak released its first megapixel sensor in 1986, a predecessor to its digital camera system (DCS) of the early 1990s. The sensor produced an image from which a good quality 5x7 print could be made. The
DCS-100 used the best of available film camera technology, Nikon‘s professional F-3 series, and equipped it with a Kodak 1.3 megapixel sensor and a 200 MB hard drive— all for about $13,000. Early 1+ megapixel cameras pointed to the potential for digital imaging but were often prohibitively expensive, slow in image processing, and lacking in the range of image resolution needed by many professional photographers. The First Digital Camera Used Cassette & Was Slow & Heavy
The world‘s very first digital camera was built in 1975 by Eastman Kodak employee
Steven Sasson who was asked to build an electronic camera using a charge coupled device (CCD). Such a device has become an important component in digital imaging and it was the CCD which allowed Sasson to record a 100×100 (.01 MP) black and white image using his invention.
Using the CCD to capture the image, Sasson‘s electronic camera then wrote them to cassette. This rather analog process took 23 seconds to complete. The device he