Jason Dunn
01-17-2005, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6463-7191' target='_blank'>http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6463-7191</a><br /><br /></div><i>"One night in the summer of 1999 Tony Kurdzuk was shooting a feature story on 24-hour diners. He and a writer, both working for the Newark Star-Ledger, drove a good percentage of the length of New Jersey, starting at midnight and finishing at 5:00am, dropping in on all-night eateries, Kurdzuk firing away at every stop. His camera was the "filmless" Associated Press/Kodak NC2000e, an improved version of the original NC2000, the "first electronic camera designed specifically for photojournalists" in the words of the AP. It was hard to know if the NC2000e was actually taking pictures properly. It had no LCD for playing back the images it was supposedly recording and, of course, no spinning film rewind knob, nor any way — or need — to open the camera back."</i><br /><br />This is a great article on the history of digital photography, and more specifically, the Kodak NC2000. The early days of digital photography were wild and wooly to say the least - worth the read.