WM-565: The History of Digital Photography | Photography Clips Podcast

About this episode

This episode explores the history and origins of digital photography, tracing its development from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Digital photography, as we know it, has only been around for about two decades. In truth, however, its origins go much deeper than that. The 1990s saw the first commercially available digital cameras, but the technology that we so often take for granted – with its unlimited storage space, live view displays, and other conveniences – actually first came into being during the 1950s. It all started with the first videotape recorders that were developed in 1952. These were the first devices to use something other than film (a coded signal on tape) as a recording medium. With a tape player, people could convert the code into a picture... Podcast Notes: https://www.moneymakerphotography.com/history-digital-photography/ Photography Clips Podcast: https://www.moneymakerphotography.com/podcast/ Music From the Doctor's Office: https://www.moneymakerphotography.com/music-from-the-doctors-office/

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Host: Photography Clips

Topics covered

• digital photography
• history
• technology
• cameras
• recording medium

Keywords

• digital photography
• history
• videotape recorders
• cameras
• technology

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