History of Digital Cameras

The digital format has taken over from film as the format of choice for camera enthusiasts everywhere. Today most non-professional buyers opt for a digital camera by default. Do you know how this immensely popular technology came into being?

The father of the still digital camera was the video camcorders (VTRs) used to record videos for telecast on the television. This camera captured images by converting them into electrical impulses and saving them on to tape. However, all these cameras were Analog in nature. This changed when Nasa converted the format to digital so that it could enhance the images on the computer. Thus the first digital video camera was born.

In 1972 Texas Instruments patented the first film-less electronic camera and in 1981 Sony released the Mavica, which was the first electronic still camera. Mavica recorded still images into a mini disc, which could be read by a video recorder connected to a monitor or a printer.

But the true digital still camera arrived in 1986 when Kodak launched the world