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Our Group Presents
Nagee Sutton
Emmanuel Cantu
Is a camera that takes video or still
photographs, or both, digitally by
recording images via an electronic image
sensor.
• The purpose was to provide
onboard navigation information to
astronauts during missions to
planets. The mosaic array
periodically recorded still photos of
star and planet locations during
transit and when approaching a
planet provided additional
stadiametric information for
orbiting and landing guidance. The
concept included camera design
elements foreshadowing the first
digital camera.
History Of The Man Behind Digital
Cameras
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Texas Instruments engineer Willis Adcock
designed a film less camera and applied for
a patent in 1972, but it is not known
whether it was ever built. The first
recorded attempt at building a digital
camera was in 1975 by Steven Sasson, an
engineer at Eastman Kodak. It used the
then-new solid-state CCD image sensor
chips developed by Fairchild
Semiconductor in 1973. The camera
weighed 8 pounds (3.6 kg), recorded black
and white images to a cassette tape, had a
resolution of 0.01 mega pixels (10,000
pixels), and took 23 seconds to capture its
first image in December 1975. The
prototype camera was a technical
exercise, not intended for production.
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1990: Adobe Photoshop released.
1991: Kodak DCS-100, first digital SLR, a modified Nikon F3
1992: Kodak introduces PhotoCD
1993: Founding of photo.net (this Web site), an early Internet
online community; Sebastiao Salgado publishes Workers; Mary
Ellen Mark publishes book documenting life in an Indian circus.
1995: Material World, by Peter Menzel published.
1997: Rob Silvers publishes Photomosaics
1999: Nikon D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000, first ground-up
DSLR design by a leading manufacturer.
2000: Camera phone introduced in Japan by Sharp/J-Phone
2001: Polaroid goes bankrupt
2003: Four-Thirds standard for compact digital SLRs introduced
with the Olympus E-1; Canon Digital Rebel introduced for less than
$1000
2004: Kodak ceases production of film cameras
2005: Canon EOS 5D, first consumer-priced full-frame digital
SLR, with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor for $3000; Portraits by
Rineke Dijkstra
Types Of Digital Cameras
• Minolta
Sony
Kodak
How Digital Cameras Are Used
Today
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Some camera types are used for making homemade
crafts such as paper or digital photo memory books,
creating cards, calendars, and more. Usually these
cameras are of the point-and-shoot variety.
A single-use camera is professional enough for
advanced use, but yet they are often made simple
enough for amateur photographers to use. These
type of cameras are often used for taking weather
photography and/or other outdoor media shots.
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They are also used for our technology today through
technology such as Microsoft Words, Power Points,
Window Movie Makers, and etc.
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Digital cameras can do things film cameras cannot:
displaying images on a screen immediately after
they are recorded, storing thousands of images on a
single small memory device, recording video with
sound, and deleting images to free storage space.
Advantages Of Digital Cameras
• Immediate gratification
• You have the ability to
immediately deliver the image to
client
• Instant ISO/white balance
change from shot-to-shot
• Digital media is more portable
• There are no film or processing
costs
• Some markets accept only digital
submissions
• No scan-related costs
• Digital offers improved tonal
range
Disadvantages Of Cameras
• Higher initial cost
• Digital cameras are not equal to
film cameras in features
• Digital requires greater battery
consumption
• Perception problems
• Poor low-light performance
• Some markets refuse digital
submissions
• Digital has a steeper learning
curve
• More frequent obsolescence
Overall Summary Of Digital
Cameras
• WHETHER OR NOT YOU SWITCH TO
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, DIGITAL IS AND
WILL REMAIN A FORCE IN THE PHOTO
UNIVERSE. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN
DIGITAL, RENT OR BORROW A DIGITAL
CAMERA TO GET THE FEEL OF IT. SPEND
SOME TIME WITH A FRIEND WHO SHOOTS
DIGITALLY AND SEE HOW THEY HANDLE
THEIR DIGITAL WORKFLOW. IN TIME, I
THINK THAT DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
WILL BE THE NORM AND THAT FILM WILL
FALL FAR BEHIND. WHETHER OR NOT YOU
AGREE, IT ONLY MAKES SENSE TO
INVESTIGATE DIGITAL AS AN
ALTERNATIVE MEDIUM. THEN YOU CAN
DECIDE FOR YOURSELF IF IT IS TIME TO
SWITCH.
Reference Page
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Yahoo.com
Wikipedia.com
Google.com
MSN.com
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