Cameras

 











Before 1984, cameras suffered from the technology they used: the internal picture sensor, the tube, was large, heavy, delicate and consumed a lot of power. The current generations of sub-miniature cameras and camcorders are only possible because of the development of the Charge Coupled Device, or CCD, which is a solid-state device - an image sensor on a chip. In stark contrast to the tube, a CCD is tiny, rugged and requires very little power; CCDs are also far more sensitive than tubes, allowing shooting to continue in extremely low light levels.

1983/4 was also the period when the camera and recorder were combined to form the first camcorders, and although the very first ones still used tubes, the CCD allowed the camera part to be miniaturised along with the recorder.

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