Digital Camera

Taking snaps on holiday used to mean loading film and then sending them away to be developed, hoping they would develop into the images you wanted to remember. There was only one chance to snap a fantastic moment, you couldn’t delete blurred images from the roll of film and there was only one format – hard copy.

When Steven Sasson was working for Eastman Kodak in 1975, he developed an electronic camera which to begin with only found a market in the world of science and the military. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that the development of the technology saw early models being available for the public to buy which heralded the beginning of a revolution in photography.

With the smartphone also developing alongside as a must-have gadget, by the mid-2000s most mobile phones also had a digital camera installed and the industry fought over their audience with promises of higher quality images and more storage capacity. The boom in use of social network sites also increased the use of digital cameras with the capability of instant sharing from anywhere in the world at any time of day or night.