Huzzah for Israel! asked:
I am working on a school paper (Senior Project report) that has to be 10-12 pages long. I am doing mine on the History of Digital Photography. I have found plenty of websites, but no books on the history of Digital Photography. Any Suggestions? Titles AND Authors if you can manage it. Thanks!
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I am working on a school paper (Senior Project report) that has to be 10-12 pages long. I am doing mine on the History of Digital Photography. I have found plenty of websites, but no books on the history of Digital Photography. Any Suggestions? Titles AND Authors if you can manage it. Thanks!
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The definitive photo history book is by Beaumont Newhall, one of the most respected photo historians:
That, though, does not answer your question as the book only goes until the mid-80′. Just thought it was good to point out.
Here are a few resources for digital photo history:
The trouble is that digital photography hasn’t been round long enough for there to be time for a definitive history to be written. Although Sony were thinking about digital in the early 1990s (the Mavica?) digital cameras didn’t become widely available until the ed of the decade. My first digicam, a compact it woould be called now, came bundled with my computer in 2000 and was a Kodak nuch like a compact film camera of the time. It was 1megapixels and I used it as little more than a toy. My first ’serious’ digital camera was an Olympus ‘bridge’ camera - a good model at the time but still only 2.2 mp which I brought at the end of 2000. In 2003 I upgraded again to a Minolta bridge, that with 5mp, so you can see how fast things were changing. DSLRs only became common round about the end of 2003 into 2004. I brought my first (and still only) DSLR in early 2005 and that is 6.5mp (ample, in my view). Howver, just 2 or 3 years later 10 & 12 mp
was common with some cameras going up to 15. I say all this just so you can see how fast the world is moving.