| The history of the digital camera is quite interesting and | | | | the cheap digital cameras have more than 1.3 mega |
| it goes back quite a while. In fact, NASA used analog | | | | pixels! |
| signals for a while and began changing them over to | | | | In 1994 the first home use digital cameras were |
| digital signals sometime during the 1960s. During this | | | | developed and marketed. They worked with a serial |
| time computer use was also increasing significantly | | | | cable directly connected to the computer. This included |
| and technology for computers increased as well. The | | | | the Apple QuickTake 100 camera and the Kodak |
| government was using digital technology at this time as | | | | DC40 as well as several others that showed up |
| well in the way of spy satellites. Soon, the private | | | | between 1995 and 1996. |
| sector jumped in and helped take digital technology a | | | | Kodak really started marketing the personal digital |
| long way. In the mid '70s things started changing | | | | camera and teamed up with Microsoft and Kinko's to |
| significantly and the road to digital cameras was | | | | offer software as well as kiosks. Soon, the digital |
| paved. A machine vision camera as well as an | | | | camera revolution had taken off and there were |
| industrial camera were introduced during this time | | | | printers, cameras, and everything else that |
| frame as well with semi digital capacity but not exactly | | | | complemented the digital technology. As the years |
| as we know it today. Nevertheless, digital cameras | | | | passed the digital technology increased and soon |
| were well on their way to becoming famous. | | | | higher pixels were being offered, cameras were more |
| Kodak played a big role in developing cameras and | | | | affordable, and everyone was buying their very own. |
| equipment that utilized digital quality or formatting in | | | | Today digital cameras are super popular and it seems |
| some way or another but it was not until 1991 that | | | | everyone has their very own. In fact, you can go buy |
| Kodak introduced a professional digital camera | | | | a digital camera for a hundred dollars or a very nice |
| system. This digital camera was focused on | | | | one for a several hundred dollars. If you don't have a |
| photojournalists and it had a 1.3 mega pixel sensor. | | | | lot of money then you can even buy one used for as |
| That was big back then but as we know today even | | | | little as $30 or $40! |