"digital Is Coming" (1997 Magazine Article)

I remember in Yellowstone over hearing an older guy talking to his wife about heading to the gift shop to see if they sold "chips". We're spoiled now with huge SD cards.

I'd not realized that he had an account here although I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

I remember back in 2006 visiting my aunt in Colorado on my way to Arizona. She had had a digital camera for about two years, and we were talking about them (I'd just gotten my first digital) and it turned out that she didn't know you could delete or reformat cards. She'd just kept buying new SD cards every time she filled one.

Hey, where do you put the film?

Nice link Joseph!

George Lepp is another one of those guys who embraced digital early on, and in fact probably was one of the first to teach digital to his students.

http://www.georgeleppimages.com/

I've mentioned on here before that I used to get in conversations with a former boss in TV News about how far away digital photography was from becoming main stream. I believe we were having this discussion in 2003. I went digital in 2004 and never looked back.

I'd inherited a lot of photo magazines from just before that era and the big buzz was autofocus, and something called a Konica which was the smallest lightest cheapest way to achieve it (basically a P&S with contrast phase detect system). And then something called a Minolta which was the first SLR with a built in AF motor (Pentax and Nikon had both tried a bulky external contraption but it failed to take off), but it was this INTERNAL thing that caught the attention of photographers around the world, and it seemed everyone had suddenly started to develop various eye problems and really NEEDED this latest revolutionary innovation.

The rest is history...