Jun 23 2010
First Digital Camera Ever Used
Posted by: Adina in digital cameras

In 1814 the first photograph ever was taken; however, since then a lot has happened into the technological field. If back then in the days a sliding wooden box camera was used to take this photograph, in the middle of Paris, it soon disappeared as it was not permanent, and it faded.
Anyhow, the history of the photograph can be traced long way back in the days, at the beginning of the millennium. In 1021 the Iraqui Arab scientist Ibn al-Hatham, used a pinhole to project an image of the scene outside upside down onto a viewing surface. Bacon was the following to study this matter, but his discovery was shadowed by the fact that people started to believe that the “devil” could insinuate himself through the pinhole by magic and then such device was ceased to be produced. A mathematician then followed to continue this discovery and put it into practice.
However it was not put into practice until it was invented the first photographical practical method, known under the name of daguerreotype, in 1836. The first actual camera was a Kodak which as well manufactured the first camera film to be put into. It was back then a simple box camera with a fixed focus lens attached.

As far as the first cameras on the market were not digital, but analogue, it took some time that the digital cameras actually appeared. The main difference between the two camera models is the fact that the digital cameras do not need any film whatsoever, but can do with digital memory cards or internal storage.

It was in 1975, when an engineer known under the name of Sasson, working for Eastman Kodak Company, invented the first digital camera and playback system. He has been known for loving new discoveries, enjoying what he did, that is why the people from Kodak took him in their company, the first thing after he finished school.
He recognizes that he and some other coworkers spent a year on the digital camera project, and after a year they came up with the first digital pictures, which he called, film – less photography, and they put the pictures on the television to be able to see them. Anyhow, the first digital camera invented had nothing in common whatsoever with the way the present days digital cameras look like. It weighted as much as 8.5 pounds and made just black and white pictures.
Even though experiences were made long before, the first consumer camera was released in the year 1994 and was known under the name of Apple Quick Take as it was made together with the association with the Apple Computers.
The actual inventor of the digital camera, recognizes that first when he came into this filed he did not know much about it, but with time and with passion to explore new things, he came to make the first digital camera ever. Even though more than thirty years passed by since the first digital camera release, Kodak remained the intellectual owner of a lot of IP – intellectual property that the digital cameras use today.
Even though not the only digital camera producer one the market, Kodak has a very good position in this filed. It as well has over one thousand digital camera patents covering and over ten thousand patents covering the entire photographical imaging system.<
The digital cameras prices offered today can be as well lower than one hundred dollars as teher is a mass of people that seem to prefer the classic photographical style that should be taken into care. The challenges that this field offers are formidable, as photography has opened more challenges than ever. Cameras are some very beautiful devices, which are getting each day more futuristic, smaller and better.
What the future has in hold for the digital cameras is to make smaller and easier devices, that can as well perform very well and be used for a longer time. They will soon be able to make the entire imaging processing, from capturing to actually printing the image.





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Levent Goktem said on Jan 05 12 at 10:21 am:
Kodak is about to go bankrupt today. It's so sad.