Digital Photo History

What is the history of digital photography? Who started it? When and how? Does
someone have a patent?

I haven't taken my best picture yet.

LEICA wrote:


I haven't taken my best picture yet.

g nobody else has either.


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"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

LEICA wrote:


I haven't taken my best picture yet.

g nobody else has either.


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jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

http://inventors.about.com/library/i...italcamera.htm

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What is the history of digital photography? Who started it? When and how?
Does
someone have a patent?

I haven't taken my best picture yet.

http://inventors.about.com/library/i...italcamera.htm

"LEICA" wrote in message
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What is the history of digital photography? Who started it? When and how?
Does
someone have a patent?

I haven't taken my best picture yet.

"Jer" wrote in message
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LEICA wrote:


I haven't taken my best picture yet.

g nobody else has either.


Or so we hope!

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Aurelius Aristotle Finch III

"Jer" wrote in message
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LEICA wrote:


I haven't taken my best picture yet.

g nobody else has either.


Or so we hope!

--
Aurelius Aristotle Finch III

Jer wrote:
LEICA wrote:


I haven't taken my best picture yet.

g nobody else has either.

_oh cone trare_: I have taken _his_ best picture, and _your_ best
picture, and many others' best pictures; however, I have yet to take
_my_ best picture.

--
Frank ess

Jer wrote:
LEICA wrote:


I haven't taken my best picture yet.

g nobody else has either.

_oh cone trare_: I have taken _his_ best picture, and _your_ best
picture, and many others' best pictures; however, I have yet to take
_my_ best picture.

--
Frank ess

This article is not strictly correct: analog electronic image recording is
not the same as what we would recognize as digital imaging. The advance in
recording technique that allowed information dense video images to be
recorded in the 1950s was the development of the helical (rotating)
recording head, the process still in use for analog and digital tape
recording. These were and are analog recordings no different in principle
than analog audio tape like the audio cassette.

Bing Crosby was a significant factor for the development of audio tape
recording as well as video. He was the first radio star to use electronic
recording and insist that his network produce all his shows on tape in the
late 1940s. This proved to be far more economical than live broadcasting and
allowed for reliable repeat broadcasts, residuals, etc.

Digital imaging as we know it originated with government research for
civilian and military space imaging purposes. Who else had the computing
power in those ancient days of the 1960s and 1970s?

The public's first contact with digital imaging in a form we would now
recognize I believe came when images from the Viking landers on Mars (it
might have been a different probe as my poor memory is imperfect) were sent
back in the mid 1970s and broadcasters showed both the raw and, after a
significant delay, the processed images. Most network news shows had
features explaining how this new type of imaging worked.

Probably the lowliest consumer digital camera available today has more
processing power than could be applied to those early images.