I suspect you are correct Martin.
The space race would have preceded all the consumer products by several years. And Rod WP raised an interesting point (off line) because all digital cameras (ie all CCDs and cMos chips are in fact analogue devices - so maybe NONE of these cameras is truly digital ??
The analogue to digital conversion is an integral part of the camera software package but the image is actually captured in an analogue form.
Curiouser and curiouser said Alice !
A Happy Christmas to you all
Adam Woolfitt
On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 07:49 pm, Martin Evening wrote:
At the risk of sounding a smart a**, surely the space race give us the first digital cameras?From: Adam Woolfitt Subject: [PRODIG] The First Digital Camera I was recently asked "What was the first digital camera "?
When John Glenn flew in the first Mercury capsule in 1962
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But these were definitely more than video chips modified to capture single shot images and the technology of this time must have led on to the development of the chips we use today.
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