It was hardly a threat to their film bushiness when it was first built.
God only knows what a production camera would have cost, and the sensor
technology was still in it's infancy. They built it looked at the costs
of production compared the quality of output to what film could produce
and decided not to invest further at that time, because the couldn't
conceive of anyone paying the cost for an inferior product. Remember
it's not just the camera, but the output devices that make digital
photography possible. In 1977 a "high resolution" color monitor would
have set you back thousands of dollars, digital color printers didn't
exist as such, personal computers were things like the TRS 80, Apple }{
not really hight resolution display computers, there was no home market
and building one would have required developing everything from printers
to computers to cameras, pretty much from scratch.
Rick Womer wrote:
Yup. Invented, patented, and then buried as a threat to their cash-cow film
and processing business.
They rather blew it, didn't they?
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Igor Roshchin <[email protected]>
Subject: First digital camera
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 5:53 PM
Some people may have know about this, but it was a surprise
to me.
Interesting patent(s) circa 1977:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=4131919
- the first digital camera:
http://mindhobby.com/images/7/first/1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sasson
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