"The game-changing new releases came from a variety of brands, but they all had one of two main capture systems: a Sony 3.34 megapixel ICX252AK chip, or a Fujifilm Super CCD."
Let the tournament commence... In the late 1990s, poor quality digital cameras were competing against sensationally colourful slide film such as this, the landscaper's old favourite - Fujichrome Velvia 50. The digicam had the mother of all battles on its hands...
As a digital imager since the 1990s, and one of the first contributors to fully illustrate a UK railway magazine article with digital photo files, I can vividly remember how roundly the digital format was dismissed in its early days. Back at a time when the vast majority of railway photos were submitted for nationwide publication by post, on original colour transparency media, I set about persuading a magazine editor to accept a full set of digital files in accompaniment to an article I'd written. To say the least, it was not an easy task.