Digital cameras compact and elegant that we know and love today share a common bond with film cameras of the past. Without the advent of film technology would be difficult (or impossible) to a world where images can be viewed directly on an integrated LCD screen or proposals which hundreds of images can be stored, edited or deleted on a map memory weak. But many people use their cameras every day, without recognizing how they met and effort in helping make them a part of our daily lives.

Although modern digital camera is a relatively new phenomenon, the first digital camera was created in the mid-1970s by an engineer at Eastman Kodak and weighed on an 8 lbs amazing. The camera images recorded on a tape full size and had an image resolution of only 0.01MP, much less than the 8 and 10 megapixel digital cameras available today. This early example was never designed to be carried anywhere, but instead was used to prove that digital images can be recorded and stored on a separate carrier.

The first true hand held electronic camera, the Sony Mavica, released in 1981, although it actually uses analog technology to continuous pixel signals, similar to recording video recording devices. The first true digital camera was not until 1988 with the introduction of the Fuji DS-1P with a battery powered card 16 MB internal memory. Only in the early 1990s that digital cameras became available in millions of pixels, and the rest is history.