A Brief History Of Digital Camera Case Study

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National Economics University

INNOVATION

ASSIGNMENT

Full name: Lương Nguyễn Bảo Châu

Student’s ID: 11190771

Class: E-SOM K61

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INNOVATION

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Table of contents

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Question 1

Hightlight the inventions and innovations 4

Difference between inventions, major innovations 5

And incremental innovations

Question 2: Describe different functional sources of innovation 5

Question 3: demand pull and technology push 7

Question 4: Analyse the case of first digital camera 9

Question 5: Analyze the competition among various digital camera 11

In their product-line

Question 6: Leica digital camera 14

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Question 1

The history of technological change in camera industry is bound with inventions with

patents and innovations. Here is some inventions and innovations that brings the new

product in this industry.

Firstly, in 1975, Eastman Kodak engineer Stevent Sason developed a prototype (US

patent 4,131,919) recognised as the first digital camera. Revolutionary 0.01 megapixel

resolution, and it takes 23 seconds to create first digital photo. Let’s talk about shutter

lag. In 1976, Fairchild developed the first commercial CCD camera. The MV-101 was

used to test P&G products. The next year, Konica introduced the world’s first C35-AF

point-and-shoot autofocus camera. On August 25, 1981, Sony released its first video

camera called Mavica. In 1981, The ASI Science Group at the University of Calgary,

Canada, built a Fairchild all-sky camera to photograph the aurora borealis. The digital

revolution began in October 1981 with the debut of the world’s first consumer CD

player, the Sony CDP-101. In 1983, the Frank designer Luigi Colani to imagine a

camera design for the future. These included the Hy-Pro, the LCD reflex camera, a new

camera called Lady, the Super C. Bio with the ability to zoom in and out, and the

underwater frog. HOMIC was the concept of storing a stationary camera like Gerry

Anderson in solid-state memory. It was published on Photokina in 1984, but never

marketed. In 1988, Fuji DS-1P-the first true handheld digital camera was developed but

never sold. That year, Digital Darkroom was the first image editing program for

Macintosh computers. The first JPEG and MPEG standards were also established in

1988. The first digital camera actually marketed was the Dycam model in 1990. A gray

version is marketed as the Logitech Fotoman. In some SLR systems, the digital back is

connected to the film camera. The Hasselblad DB 4000, which came out in 1991, is an

example. In 1990, Adobe PhotoShop 1.0 was launched. In 1992, Mosaic, the first web

browser that let users view photographs over the Web named Mosaic was released. In

the same year, the Kodak DCS 200 based on the NIkon N8008s debuted with a built-in

hard drive. Apple QuickTake 100 was launched in 1994 and was actually made by

Kodak, and was the first color digital camera that cost less than $1,000. Then came

QuickTake 200, manufactured by Fujifilm. The Epson MJ-700V2C was the first photo

quanlity desktop inkjet printer in 1994. Later this year, Olympus Deltis VC-1100

became the first digital camera with built– in transmission capabilities in the world.

CompactFlash cards and SmartMedia card also arrived this year. Kodak DC-25 was the

first camera used CompactFlash. In 1995 Casio QV-10 was the first camera on the back

with an LCD screen and the first optical customer, once fitted with a swivel lens. The

Ricoh RDC-1 was developed in 1995. It was the first optical camera to capture film

footage and sound images. That year, Videoman was the first color digital video camera

and webcam for the PC. Canon Powershot 600 was released in 1996 with the same

concerpt. In 1997, appeared camera phones and CMOS sensors. Pentax EI-C90 was

splited into two sections, this form factor was laid down for multi– megapixel camera

today. (Trenholm,2021)

To determine the difference between inventions of technological breakthroughs and

major innovations and minor/ incremental innovations we need to know about the

definitions of invention and innovation first. The two terms definitely are very closely

related but not identical and should never be used on an equivalent basis. Innovation and

invention are two very different things. The Cambridge Dictionary defines an invention

as “something that has never been made before, or theprocess ofcreating something that

has never been made before”. By definition, it must be something completely new, so an

innovation has never been made before. Inventing something is finding a new thing. For

example, The first prototype (US patent 4,131,919) to be accepted as the first digital

camera was produced by Eastman Kodak, engineer Stevent Sason in 1975. “Innovation,”

happens if someone improves on or makes a significant contribution to an existing

product. In other words, as Andrew Wyckoff, innovation flows from invention.

Innovation = Invention * Commercialisation

About innovation, we have major innovation and incremental innovation. Major

innovation was devided into two parts. Radical Innvovation and Disruptive Innovation

In October 1981, digital revolution began with the release of the world’s first compact

disc player, the Sony CDP-101. In 1988, the first JPEG and MPEG standards were