The Future of Photography

The Future of Digital Photography Abstract

The advancement of photography has grown rapidly over the past 10 years. With such large advancements to the camera, it has had a very large impact on consumers today. On October 17, 1969 the first digital camera was invented by two men by the name of, George Smith and Willard Boyle and by 1970, only a year later, inventors were able to put video capabilities onto the digital camera. Such leaps and bounds were successfully achieved in only one year. By 1981 Sony created a camera that could hold up to 25 pictures and take a small amount of short video clips. Today digital imaging and video capabilities are a part of almost everyday photography. You can also find digital video and photography today on smart phones, and computers. The quality of images has also increased tremendously over the years. Smart phone are now able to take high resolution pictures that often times couldn’t be differentiated from an actual digital camera. Like the iPhone 4 with HDR imaging. Today we can load pictures onto our computers from a memory chip, but that’s all about to change. Camera companies are coming out with digital camera software that allows the user to upload pictures to websites and computers straight from their camera. Another breakthrough in digital camera technology is the company Adobe is trying to come up with a vivid detailed Plenoptic Lens. Meaning the lens captures every segment of the images around you ensuring you don’t miss any details. Many technological advances have been made in the area of 3D technology. With the digital camera it is a work in progress. Fiji Film has come out with what appears to be the first 3D camera earlier this year. The camera is equipped with two eye holes to capture the pictures. The possibilities for the digital cameras in the future are endless.