Apparently not many people know that electronic still cameras were available in the 1980's and 1990's before digital still cameras. Major brands like Canon, Sony and others offered them and printers to with them. They used color TVs as display devices. They were all commercial failures but set the stage /groundwork for the later digital cameras of the late 1990's and beyond.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Home Page - www.jchriso.com Join the Audio CD PLAYER DISCUSSION list - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 12:19 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: First digital camera 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 >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and follow the directions. >> >> > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
