When was the digital camcorder invented

In , Ampex released the first compressed digital video camera called the DCT, which allowed hours of video recording to be done on one tape. This innovation resulted in a slew of the products and development by Sony, Panasonic and other.

The cameras were getting smaller but the quality and resolution was improving due to the compression techniques. A colossal leap forward in camcorder innovation happened in when Sony developed a new format which supported high definition video.

This innovation would completely change the face of video production and result in vintage TV footage looking very embarrassing to a modern audience. In , Sony upended the industry again by releasing the first tapeless digital recorder.

By , Sony, Panasonic, and other organisers were producing tapeless formats for both professional and consumer markets. In , Kodak engineer Steve Sasson created the first-ever digital camera. It was built using parts of kits and leftovers around the Kodak factory, and an early CCD image sensor from Fairchild in The camera was about the size of a breadbox and it took 23 seconds to capture a single image. It took 0. Like the Kodak camera, this Fuji-made camera was never sold.

In , Kodak created the first first-ever digital SLR. What made the All-Sky Camera truly digital was that it recorded digital data rather than analog. Meanwhile, in October the digital revolution rolled on with the release of the world's first consumer compact disc player, the Sony CDP In , Canon commissioned Luigi Colani to envision the future of camera design.

The outspoken designer believed that an egg is the highest form of packaging and employed his "no straight lines in the universe" philosophy to create these innovative concepts: the Hy-Pro, an SLR design with an LCD viewfinder; a novice camera named rather tactlessly the Lady; the Super C Bio with power zoom and built-in flash; and the underwater Frog.

This was a spaceship-esque concept for a still video camera recording to solid-state memory. Unusually, the lens and viewfinder were on the same axis, while the flash fired through the objective lens. The first genuinely handheld digital camera should have been the Fuji DS-1P in The first digital camera to actually go on sale in the US was the Dycam Model 1.

Also marketed as the Logitech Fotoman, this camera used a CCD image sensor, stored pictures digitally and connected directly to a PC for download -- in other words, just like the cameras we later became familiar with. Digital Darkroom became the first image-manipulation program for the Macintosh computer in , and Adobe PhotoShop 1.

Mosaic, the first web browser that let people view photographs over the web, was released by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in That year also saw the Kodak DCS debut with a built-in hard drive. It was based on the Nikon Ns and came in five combinations of black-and-white or color, with and without hard drive. Resolution was 1. You'd have to live under a rock to not know that Apple makes phones, but did you know it also had a crack at the digital camera market?

It packed a xpixel CCD and could stash up to eight x images in the internal memory. Despite the Apple logo, it was actually manufactured by Kodak. The follow-up QuickTake was built by Fujifilm. Epson launched the first "photo quality" desktop inkjet printer in Later that year, the Olympus Deltis VC became the first digital camera that could send photos. You had to plug it into a modem, but it could transmit photos down a phone line -- even a cellphone.

It took about six minutes to transmit an image. Kodak's Super 8 movie format packaged film in a cartridge, thus removing all the problems amateurs had with threading the film in the camera. It created a mini-boom in home movies in the s. Introduced in , Sony's Betamovie BMC was the world's first camcorder — a video cassette recorder and video camera combined.