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Digital imaging is a profound shift in the way we humans capture and share pictures. How much do you know about digital photography?They figured out how to record images electronically instead of relying on film.
CCDs (and their CMOS cousins) are the light-sensitive sensors that capture images in digital cameras.
They were confronted by a supervisor and told to do something fast, otherwise they'd lose project funding.
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Digital images are made up of many small pixels; together, the pixels can make up crystal-clear images suitable for enlargements.
Consumer digital cameras often prominently display megapixels right on the box.
Camera marketers use megapixels to tout cameras, but a variety of other factors are just as important.
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As with old-school film, a higher ISO number typically works better in low-light scenarios.
The JPEG format employs clever compression techniques to store more images with little loss in image quality.
The noise (or grain) is typically most visible in darker areas of the image.
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President Obama awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Steve Sasson for his work on digital cameras.
And the images were stored to cassette tape.
It was the first to save images to a removable memory card but never actually sold on the market.
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With 2MB of capacity, it could only store 10 images, at maximum.
The "frames per second" rate refers to the number of still images a camera can capture in a single second.
A digital single-lens reflex camera lets you use everything from small portrait lenses to huge telephoto zoom lenses.
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It basically snagged single frames of digital video and stored them for later viewing.
Early versions often required a few seconds for startup, meaning picture opportunities might disappear before you could shoot.
These files allow the creator to tweak fundamental properties of the image with minimum loss in quality.
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Unfortunately, there just wasn't much use for this feature in 2005.
It was made by Kodak and required the photography to lug a hard drive on a shoulder strap.
The Dycam Model 1 (also sold as the Logitech Fotoman) cost $1,000 and took awful pictures.
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Without power, your images would simply slip into the digital abyss.
Kodak is notorious for missing out on much of the digital revolution.
Decades later, JPEG is still the most universal digital imaging standard, used in myriad products.
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The rear LCD screen gave photographers an instant view of the pictures they captured.
It had a resolution of 640 x 480 and was probably the first truly successful consumer digital camera.
The $6,000 D1 revolutionized the idea of what professionals and consumers could do with digital cameras.
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Inventor Philippe Kahn sent the image in 1997.
Physical media always degrades, meaning you should make multiple copies of important pictures.
Since then, the HD video features in DSLRs have exploded in popularity, among both amateur and professional videographers.
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