Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Monday, October 17, 2016
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Anti-reflective Coatings: Carl Zeiss T*
The T* coating has been patented already in 1935 and is still one of the top solutions to reduce reflections.
Here some comparison - T* coated lens on the left vs. uncoated lens on the right:
Read the scientific article by Dr. Vladan Blank and Dr. Benjamin Voelker (Carl Zeiss AG) - in German only: link
Monday, December 7, 2015
A modern camera
How does this look for a modern digital camera? - Is there somebody who can share a similar explosion chart for today's state of the art digital cameras?
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| Nikon SLR camera |
Sunday, November 22, 2015
World's first digital camera
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| First digital camera ever built. |
The image on the left is the camera developed at Eastman Kodak. - Pretty close to how digital cameras look like today ;-)
It used to be called a handheld camera. Quite bulky compared with what we call handheld today.
Interesting is the cassette tape as storage device for the images.
This camera was the result of a project run by Steve Sasson. The scope of this project was to come up with an application for the charge-coupled device, CCD. The result was a prototype camera with no moving parts as a first application of the 100x100 pixel CCD sensor. It took pictures in black and white.
Interestingly Kodak never managed to leverage this leadership in innovation of disruptive technology for the world of photography. Even decades later, Kodak still saw itself as a specialty chemicals and not as an image processing company.
“My prototype was big as a toaster, but the technical people loved it,” Mr. Sasson said. “But it was filmless photography, so management’s reaction was, ‘that’s cute — but don’t tell anyone about it."
Watch the interview with Steve Sasson for some insights into the development of this first application of digital image sensors.
Interesting is the cassette tape as storage device for the images.
This camera was the result of a project run by Steve Sasson. The scope of this project was to come up with an application for the charge-coupled device, CCD. The result was a prototype camera with no moving parts as a first application of the 100x100 pixel CCD sensor. It took pictures in black and white.
Interestingly Kodak never managed to leverage this leadership in innovation of disruptive technology for the world of photography. Even decades later, Kodak still saw itself as a specialty chemicals and not as an image processing company.
“My prototype was big as a toaster, but the technical people loved it,” Mr. Sasson said. “But it was filmless photography, so management’s reaction was, ‘that’s cute — but don’t tell anyone about it."
Watch the interview with Steve Sasson for some insights into the development of this first application of digital image sensors.
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