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Evolution of Digital Camera: Sreeram A V

The document summarizes the evolution of digital cameras from their origins. It discusses how NASA's need to send pictures from space led to the conversion of analog signals to digital, and the early development of electronic cameras in the 1970s and 1980s. It then covers the creation of the first megapixel camera by Kodak in 1986 and their introduction of Photo CD technology in 1990 which popularized digital images. By the late 1990s, consumer cameras with 3-5 megapixels could produce high-quality 8x10 prints for under $1000, marking the rise of digital photography.

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Evolution of Digital Camera: Sreeram A V

The document summarizes the evolution of digital cameras from their origins. It discusses how NASA's need to send pictures from space led to the conversion of analog signals to digital, and the early development of electronic cameras in the 1970s and 1980s. It then covers the creation of the first megapixel camera by Kodak in 1986 and their introduction of Photo CD technology in 1990 which popularized digital images. By the late 1990s, consumer cameras with 3-5 megapixels could produce high-quality 8x10 prints for under $1000, marking the rise of digital photography.

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Evolution of Digital Camera

Sreeram A V
History of Digital Cameras
 First there was the camera (19th century)
 Then there was the movie camera
 Then there was the video camera

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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What is a Digital Camera?
 What is a pixel?
 What is a megapixel?

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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

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Operation of a Video Camera
 Open the shutter and the camera records how much of
each color recorded on each sensor

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Film Advantages
 Resolution (getting better)
 Shutter Latency
 Capacity (just different)
 Batteries (a real problem)
 Cost (still a factor but dropping)

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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)

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