tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812568731886695376.post1438837283685968037..comments2022-11-13T00:34:38.890-08:00Comments on The Great Book Challenge: It was a gift...really...Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16826967903350376548noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812568731886695376.post-67436089248077325872010-10-06T07:30:29.349-07:002010-10-06T07:30:29.349-07:00What few today realize is that the charged coupled...What few today realize is that the charged coupled devices or CCDs specifically developed for both the Hubble Space Telescope and the Galileo mission to Jupiter ended up helping to kick-start a revolution in photography. Following these missions the electronics industry began an intense push to develop both video and still cameras using the CCD technology, and by 2003 the leap from film to digital imaging had become so complete that companies like Kodak, which had made film the standard at the start of the twentieth century, had publicly abandoned film for digital photography at the start of the twenty-first century.<br /><br /><i>The Universe in a Mirror</i>, Robert Zimmerman, pg 165AndreaClairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13855129375326716186noreply@blogger.com