digitalcamera

Digital camera technology is directly related to and evolved from the same technology that recorded television images. In 1951, the first video tape recorder captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses (digital) and saving the information onto magnetic tape. During the 1960s, NASA converted from using analog to digital signals with their space probes to map the surface of the moon (sending digital images back to earth). Computer technology was also advancing at this time and NASA used computers to enhance the images that the space probes were sending. Digital Camera Today: Old Camera: