Why didn't digital cameras show up until they did?
A different style of writing than most previous posts, I try to decipher why digital cameras didn't show up before they did, what forces made them appear, and just for fun: a look at what electronic cameras could have looked like in 1980.
This article is essentially a "well actually" to the completely unfounded idea that "Kodak had a digital camera in 1975 and chose not to make it because they wanted to sell film". This is of course untrue, like most other anecdotes are when you look into them. Ruin the joke with this one weird trick (knowledge).
Do note that I consider electronic cameras to be a better definition for this purpose, specifically we know that digital stills cameras didn't show up until the early 90's but electronic cameras were around in the 1930's as analog video cameras.
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