I wonder what you would say, without any googling nor any preparation
if someone asked you when exactly the first
digital camera was built?
I'll give you a hint: it was exactly the same year as my birthday.
I know what you're thinking right now:
"How is it possible that the history of digital photography is so young!"
This was just a little joke to start on a lighter note.
The creator of the first digital camera
a portable digital camera powered by batteries
was Steven Sasson and it took place in 1975.
The first digital picture that was taken with this portable digital camera
unfortunately was not saved.
Jak zdjęcie zostało zrobione to zostało odczytane
w około 15 milisekund i zdigitalizowane
i tymczasowo przechowane na cyfrowej karcie pamięci, która znajdowała się tutaj.
A zatem zostało ono zrobione, ale nie zostało zachowane.
Potrzebowałem bardziej trwałej metody zapisywania tych zdjęć.
I am not quite sure how they confirmed that this very first picture was actually taken.
Since it wasn't stored permanently anywhere
even though it was processed by this fantastic - back then - digital device.
The very digital tape used to permanently store the images was added to the project later.
Jedyną metodą cyfrowego zapisu danych jaka była mi wtedy dostępna
była kaseta cyfrowa.
The size of a digital image created by that camera was
100 x 100 pixels.
If you are watching this film in full HD 1920x1080 size
then 100 x 100 pixels looks exactly like this:
Steven Sasson himself was predicting and calculating back then that
people will more or less need twi million pixels, which means two megapixels
to reach an acceptable level of quality, a level that would make us happy with the digital pictures we take.
Going by today's standards this is of course laughably small number.
We're in the times when Sony is about to release a camera
that boasts a resolution of 61 megapixels.
This shows us clearly how far
from that moment, from the year of 1975
digital photography has come.
My today's history of digital photography will be very condensed.
I am only going to focus on a few specific events
that shaped what is happening in this whole industry today.
Talking about the history of digital photography it is hard not to mention
the first camera created by Sony that made a lot of noise
That camera was named Sony Mavica.
Skrót Mavica pochodził od Magnetic Video Camera (Magnetyczna Kamera Video).
And it wasn't really a digital camera.
It was being advertised as the first ELECTRONIC camera.
The way it worked was exactly as follows:
it was reading out one frame from the analog video signal
and saving it on a floppy disk placed
in a floppy disk drive positioned inside the camera itself.
Now we're moving right away into the year of 1988
when Fuji manufactured the first camera that was more or less resembling what we use to take pictures today.
This camera was named Fuji DS-1P
And even though it was never commercially available to an average consumer
it had a huge influence on further advancements in digital imaging technology.
In the year of 1988 the very first standards for
JPG and MPEG formats were established.
Both of them are being utilized until this day to record and store digital images and movie files.
In 1990 the very first version of a software made by Adobe hit the markets
it was called Photoshop.
A tool that really became the very basic element until this day
in a toolkit of every digital photographer, every photographer in general.
It would be very hard to perform any kind of serious work on digital images without it.
In 1995 Casio released the first digital camera
with an LCD display in theback.
This was a huge milestone because it allowed for an immediate preview of any recorded picture.
Something that today seems completely normal.
How could there be a digital camera WITHOUT the LCD, right?
That camera made by Casio brought a resolution of barely 420x280 pixels
Again, this is tiny for today's standards but it was a step ahead.
We also have to remember that in 1995 there wasn't really
a commonly used internet or if anything it was making baby steps
so there wasn't really any way to send digital pictures to each other or share them online in any way.
All right, a little correction here. In 1995 there was commonly used internet in USA.
Services like eBay, Amazon and AOL Online were created in 1994.
There was no commonly used internet in Poland so I wasn't completely wrong with my ad hoc statement.
It happens so that on May 18, exactly in 1995 the Polish Telecommunications Company (TP SA)
for the very first time made the - legendary now - public access number 0 20 21 22
Using this number anybody was able to get access to internet via computer modem connection.
So really, the only use for digital images back then
was to store them on your personal computer.
Maybe the first attempts at printing them.
1995 was a very important year for the history of digital photography
because that year Ricoh released the first digital camera
that was recording not only digital video but also sound.
The resolution of digital video recorded by that camera was 768x480 pixels.
Again, bearing today's video resolutions in mind this is a ridiculously small number of pixels on the screen
but back then this was something unique because
this resolution was matching and in some cases even exceeding
the resolution of tv broadcast in those days.
Now we are reaching year 1999
when Sanyo released this small digital camera.
This isn't any groundbreaking project nor any milestone camera in the history of digital photography
but it is very significant in my own history
because this was the very first digital camera I came across
all thanks to the entrepreneurship of my father, the older Mr Mielcarek.
I recently made a separate film dedicated completely
to this little device. I wholeheartedly encourage you to watch it!
In 2002 - I had been in USA for about 10 months by then
I became a happy owner of the Minolta Dimage 7 camera.
This camera had a resolution of 5.2 megapixels
which again - for today's norms - is a little bit funny.
But it was enough to shoot my first
wedding here on this side of the ocean in USA.
The quality that camera delivered was good enough to print a seriously good looking album.
On the advanced amateur and beginner professional digital camera market back then
Canon was in the clear lead with its unbeatable model back then: the D60.
I never got to own that legendary camera model but in the year of 2003 I managed to acquire
its successor Canon 10D.
Which I later used to shoot my first Polish wedding on this side
and it happens so that until this day
I still have the album that was made using pictures taken at that wedding.
Don't laugh. This was 16 years ago.
It was preserved in a pretty great quality until this day.
The pictures look sharp and in general there isn't much to complain about here.
I think it is worth mentioning that those were very interesting times.
Years between 2002 - 2004 were the time
when the entire world was actually transitioning into digital photography.
It was really interesting to watch and witness this entire process of transformation.
Seeing what was happening in photography studios, in various other businesses on this side
how people were approaching this subject and how they were dealing
with the fact that all of a sudden film disappears.
Where exactly is this digital image coming from and how is it created in this new camera?
How is it created? How is it generated?
How do we deal with the fact that all of a sudden there is no more sending film to a lab
but instead now we take this small card out of the camera
that by some miraculous technology is being read by our computer.
And now we also really need this Adobe Photoshop and what the heck do we do with all that!
In 2002 when I was making my decision about what system I would be using.
Nikon - to be honest - was lagging behind Canon quite seriously.
Nikon didn't really get back into the game all the way until 2007
when they decided to change the strategy when it came to digital photography progress route.
Instead of trying tu manufacture another sensor with the highest possible megapixel count
they put out an "only" 12 mpx sensor at the time when the competition was hitting 21
but with a lot cleaner higher ISO sensitivities.
Thanks to that the D3 model was regarded as the cleanest camera you could find to take pictures
in almost complete darkness.
The maximum ISO of that camera was bumped to 102400.
The competition didn't have an answer.
This is of course ancient history now. Coming back to the very equipment the interesting thing is
the very important role of Kodak.
There were two professional bodies by Kodak on the market, one with 2mpx and the tother one with 6mpx.
A few newer models were being planned and announced for the coming years.
And one could think Kodak would forever remain one of the main digital camera manufacturers.
We thought their cameras would always be the trendsetters but
as we now know after a few years Kodak basically disappeared
You could debate for a long time what was the actual reason of Kodak's downfall at the digital photography
market.
The history of this company was finalized in 2012.
with an official announcement that Kodak will no longer manufacture digital cameras.
2007 brought us another groundbreaking device in digital photography world.
iPhone.
In today's film we will not talk about how smartphones changed the world of digital photography
because this is simply too broad of a subject
but we just have to take note that when they started appearing
they caused a dramatic change
in how and by using what devices we all take pictures.
As I mentioned before in 2003 I became a happy owner of my very first Canon camera.
Now I am getting to the very core of why I am making today's film.
Starting in 2003 I've been using Canon equipment for all my professional work exclusively.
My genius 10D was with time replaced with a 20D and then the 5D
Right now, for a good few years I've been working using the third iteration of Canon 5D
Today the choice of what you want to use for your photography basically comes down to
the ergonomics and which system fits
your preferred style.
Personally, the brand wars
Canon, Nikon, Sony or whatever
never really mattered much to me.
I met a lot of people on my way who always
told me "You HAVE TO switch because..." Sony has this, and Nikon has that and some other things...
i always told people: just use whatever fits you best.
And it happens so that over the years Canon was simply the best for me.
Until this day when I made the decision
that the time has come to switch camps.
My wife said we shoud... so *I* decided to switch.
And here comes the quite personal part of this film.
Because this is a really strange feeling.
All in all, everything you see in front of me here are just tools.
And it's really strange to what extent
you get attached to the tools that
I've been using basically every day
for the past 16 years.
I think that every creator, every artist
every person that is a master of their craft
is able to understand this strange connection we have with the inanimate objects.
To your tools.
To all those things that were our companions on all this 16 year long journey.
And now the total change is about to happen.
I will now have access to all this equipment no more.
And I will have to get used to something new.
It's almost like moving.
We believe it's going to be good although we know it's just not going to be the same anymore.
To summarize it all in 2019 we take pictures with cameras that can practically see in the darkness
They have almost no noise at incredibly high ISO settings
of 51200 or even higher.
The resolution is exceeding 60 megapixels, quality is absolutely amazing.
You can use them to make prints of basically any size while
during the first attempts at digital photography
it was rather difficult to print a decent looking 4x6.
And of course if any of you would like to buy
anything of what you see here on the table then please let me know.
What should we expect in the future? I don't really know.
I know one thing for sure, digital photography is still progressing forward
and whatever happens we will report to you immediately.
Thanks so much for your attention today!
I hope you liked this short history of digital photography according to DavidM.
See you in more or less three days!
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