The NC2000 & the good old days of digital photography
Digital cameras are completely ubiquitous these days… even mobile phones that don’t have one are becoming rare. But you don’t have to go that far back to remember a time when digital cameras were very rare, very heavy, massively expensive, and at the forefront of a tidal change in photography that has revolutionised how photojournalists work.
There were attempts at producing portable digital cameras before, but it was the 1.3 megapixel Kodak/Nikon NC2000 selling for a cool $18,000 that really changed everything… So if you want to reminisce over the good old days of blue-noise the size of snowflakes, non-changeable batteries, no image preview, and felt-tip marker crop lines in the viewfinder – I kind’ve miss those actually – then take a great look back at the history and influence of this camera over at Rob Galbraith.
There’s also a discussion thread about the article in the SportsShooter forums.
