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Evolution of video cameras

  • Birth of video

    Birth of video
    Video cameras were made for broadcast media. In the 1900s image transmission was experimented with. John Logie Baird added to this with his invention of a “Nipkow disk,” a mechanical device that breaks an image into “scanlines” using a rotating disc with holes cut into it.
  • Introducing electronic designs

    Introducing electronic designs
    In early television mechanical video images were being produced however, by the 1930s new all-electronic designs based on a cathode-ray video camera tube were accomplished by engineers Philo Farnsworth and Vladimir Zsworykin who replaced the mechanical variations with electron scanning technology. This soon became the standard for television industry and remained in wide use until the 1980s.
  • Jvc and Panasonic

    Jvc and Panasonic
    These companies developed the first self-contained large format video cassette tapes in the 1970s. This invention came later to consumer prominence in the 1980s via the video camcorder, a device that brought video recording into the mainstream.
  • Modern Digital Cameras

    Modern Digital Cameras
    In the early 2000s, Sony developed the first high definition digital video cameras. Today, a high-resolution digital video is no longer confined to the domain of the television studio. High-end professional digital video cameras are used for independent films, web series and hobbyist purposes.
  • ever smaller

    ever smaller
    Today, we can see that it is not necessary to buy a video camera, since mobile phones have the ability to do it with a very good quality, in addition to having many options and it allows us not only to record it, but also to edit and share it with millions of people.