Main Concept And Evolution When digital cameras became common, a question many photographers asked was whether their film cameras could be converted to digital. The first recorded attempt at building a digital camera was by Steven Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak. The first true digital camera that recorded images as a computerized file was likely the Fuji DS-1P of 1988, which recorded to a 16 MB internal memory card that used a battery to keep the data in memory. Digital cameras can include features that are not found in film cameras, such as: - Displaying an image on the camera's screen immediately after it is recorded. - The capacity to take thousands of images on a single small memory device. - The ability to record video with sound. - The ability to edit images and deletion of images allowing re-use of the storage they occupied. A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images on a light-sensitive sensor. Most digital cameras measure subject distance automatically using acoustic or electronic techniques, but it is not customary to say that they have a rangefinder. The ... [more..]