ABSTRACT
Digital imaging is everywhere and the digital camera is taken for granted as an everyday accessory. Mobile phones take digital photographs and compact digital cameras make snapshot images. Printed photographs and documents are digitized on flat bed scanners and webcams transmit live digitized moving image footage. For millions of people around the world digital imaging is part of everyday life. New media has transformed communication in ways that have important implications for how we think about photography. In this case study we offer a brief historical survey of digital photography, to include:
• the background and development of the digital camera • different types of digital camera • the digital snapshot • the dissemination of photographs and the changing nature of the family album.
