Monday, 12 May 2008

Digital wedding photography wouldn't exist without the invention of the television in the 1950's. In the first year of that decade the video tape recorder was created to capture live images directly from television cameras and convert the information into electrical impulses which could then be stored as information on magnetic tape. This was the first example of digital camera technology in action.

Key moments in the build up towards digital wedding photography being adopted as the popular choice include the use of digital imaging by NASA during the moon missions of the sixties. A feature of this use of digital photography was that NASA would also use computers to improve the images they were seeing; something which is now almost common practice. Furthermore the American government would use digital imaging in their spy satellite, which also played a role in the development of this technology. It wasn't just governmental organisations who would play a role though, as commercial enterprises such as Texas Instruments kept things moving along by introducing a camera which required no film, and latterly Sony would produce the first camera which took electronic still images, although this was not strictly a digital camera as the pictures were actually freeze frames from a video camera.

Kodak would also invest into the creation of digital camera technology throughout the 1970s and 80s creating the first megapixel camera, as well as products for taking pictures, saving them and manipulating them, much in the way that we might do with current "Photoshop" style software. Today digital wedding photography and digital cameras are used by wedding photographers everywhere. Of course with new technologies there are always detractors who prefer to use more traditional methods, at least until the new way is proven to be infallible.

If you are interested in having your wedding pictures taken by Robert using digital wedding photography and are interested in his approach to your portfolio then feel free to contact him.

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