On 17 October 1969, George Smith and Willard Boyle initiated the model of digital photography when they invented the CCD, or the charge-coupled device. The CCD is the core component of digital cameras as it forms the cameras’ sensors. Smith and Boyle originally intended to use the CCD in various applications involving semiconductor memory of computers. But they found themselves with what became the basis of the digital photography history.
Their other intention was to create a solid-state camera that they would utilize in various video applications. They took only two hours to draw a plan of the fundamental structure of the CCD, describe its operation mechanism, and outline its applications. By 1970, Boyle and Smith had developed a simple video camera in which they integrated the CCD.
After an elapse of five years, the two men used the CCD in a multiplicity of video broadcast devices. Digital photography got a new meaning when the CCD was incorporated in digital still cameras. Sony Corporation used the CCD to develop the first operational digital camera, dubbed Magnetic Video Camera (Mavica). The camera used the CCD to record and store video on a compressed floppy disk. The CCD video camera was only suited for capturing video clips by use of freeze frames.
Kodak improved digital photography when it produced a full featured camera in 1986. The camera had a high resolution of 1,400,000 pixels and with it, fine 5 by 7 inch images could be produced. Later, digital photography was taken a notch higher in 1991 when the Nikon F-3 digital camera was released. The camera was highly advanced and had features of characteristic of fine digital photography with an inclination towards dedicated photojournalists.
Digital Photography has become a very wide field today with a lot of opportunities different kinds of style. We have photo journalists who use digital photography extensively, we have wedding photographers, there is the beautiful field called street photography and more. If the field interests you, after reading it’s rich history, then take sometime to focus on any one of the fields.
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