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THIS VIDEO WAS ORIGINALLY RECORDED LIVE ON MAY 26th, 2020
THE REAL PICTURE #11 - THE PIONEERS OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
A Look at the Evolution of Digital Photography in Journalism and How it Became Mainstream

HIGHLIGHTS:
00:10:52 - Intro
00:25:08 - Former AP Photo Executive Hal Buell Talks About the History of Image Transmission
00:48:40 - Brief Discussion of Wet Darkrooms and Analog Transmission Methods
01:03:20 - Ron Edmonds on First Non-Film Image Acquisition using a Video Surveillance Camera
01:05:40 - Ron Edmonds and Bob Daugherty on Using the Nikon QV-1000 Still Video Camera at 1988 Inauguration and State of the Union
01:10:45 - Former USA Today Photographer Darr Beiser on Using a Sony Mavica Still Video Camera starting in 1988 and after.
01:17:45 - Hal Buell and Jim Gerberich on the Introduction of the Leafax Negative Scanner
01:29:35 - Scott Applewhite, Bob Daugherty and Greg Gibson on using the First Satellite Telephone Use During the First Gulf War
01:45:46 - Jim Gerberich, Ron Edmonds, Greg Gibson on Using the Kodak DCS100 in 1992 at the Political Conventions, Presidential Debates and Election Night in Little Rock
01:57:40 - Greg Gibson on First Magazine Cover Captured with a Digital Camera
02:02:50 - Greg Gibson, Jim Gerberich on Using DCS100 in Little Rock on Election Night 1992
02:09:28 - Steve Hart on First Photoshop and Tricks to Reduce Noise in the Files
02:15:45 - Former Vancouver Sun Photographer Nick Didlick and Calgary Herald Photographer Rob Galbraith on being the first two newspapers to transition to digital imaging full time in 1995
02:27:12 - Introduction of the NC2000 Camera - Smaller form factor with removable media
02:38:30 - Former AP Photo Editor Brian Horton on Covering the 1996 Superbowl With all Digital Cameras - the First Major Event where AP Implemented Full Digital Coverage
03:02:50: Greg Gibson, Steve Hart and Scott Applewhite on Covering the 1996 Presidential Campaign Fully Digital. The first long term story AP devoted full digital resources to. With some discussion on how digital photography changed coverage.
03:20:10 - Introduction of the Kodak DCS520/620 with removable battery, LCD Screen and Smaller Media and some images made with that camera.
03:31:50 - Rob Galbraith talks about his first book on Digital Photography published in 1996.
03:36:50 - Nick Didlick on Cellular Transmission
03:43:30 - Camera improvements through 2002 and wrap up.

Everybody has a digital camera these days. In fact more digital images have been made the past 5 years than all images combined in the previous 50. Digital cameras are so ubiquitous that most people carry one everywhere they go built right into their phone. Apps like Instagram and Flickr make sharing easy and most cameras now even include built-in WiFi for easy transfer and distribution.

But how did we get here. Few people know the real story.

Join us for a conversation with some of the real life, early pioneers in digital photography. Digital imaging was first adopted by news wire services like the Associated Press because their business was built on speed of delivery. Newspapers had deadlines and if you didn’t get your images to them before they sent the paper to the press, you didn’t get in print. In the early days photographers carried full darkrooms with tanks of caustic chemicals and enlargers to make prints. In fact, not much changed in image transfer and delivery from the first wire photo sent in 1935 until around 1988 when the transfer from analog to digital delivery began to pick up steam.

With the advent of digital imaging, there was no film to process and no prints to make greatly increasing the speed at which images could be delivered.

I’ll be talking with former AP photographers and editors like Scott Applewhite, Bob Daugherty, Ron Edmonds, Steve Hart and Brian Horton. I’ll also be joined by Nick Didlick and Rob Galbraith who managed the photo staffs of the Vancouver Sun and the Calgary Herald, two of the first newspapers in the world to commit fully to digital imaging. Rob also ran one of the most popular online message boards related to digital imaging for many years.

These guys revolutionized the news industry by using the early cameras our in the field on actual assignments, by transmitting images using early cell phones and modems sometimes at 300-1200 baud. They helped build out the infrastructure and brought digital photography into the mainstream as we know it now.

This wasn’t an easy transition. There was a lot of trial and error. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t. You’ll hear some great stories from all of these folks on how this all took place and how the foundation for digital imaging was laid.