Digital Camera Technology

With an expected growth in sales for digital cameras forecasted to exceed 100 million units in 2008, who is to say that it will not be the year of the digital camera? Digital cameras are fast replacing their film re-loadable counterparts (including digital cameras built into phones) and it’s just a matter of time before they take over the market completely. What can we expect from industry bigwigs when the year of the digital camera hits?

Better Performance

One of the world’s industry leaders in digital cameras and digital camera technologies, Kodak will unveil something in their digital cameras in 2008 what is set to greatly improve performance in cameras that are used in dim conditions. By creating better digital camera image sensors, Kodak will improve light sensitivity sensors in their existing models. For photographers, this means that shutter speed will be greatly improved which will help solve motion blur problems. Light sensitivity is a problem that is found in all digital cameras. With this revolutionary new technology that will be released in Kodak products by first quarter of 2008, the company hopes that they can also license the solution to other industry leaders in the same field.

Better Cameras

Resolution and the number mega pixels in cameras have started to improve with each release of camera phone. Samsung itself has even released a 10 mega pixel camera phone. However, with the popularity of slim phones rising, there is not much that can be done with the cameras that have been built into them because of the limitation of space on their motherboards. Samsung, however, is developing a solution that will hopefully break the 2 mega pixel barrier that most slim phones face. Samsung announced the world’s first 3-megapixel CMOS image sensor that is best for ultra slim phones earlier in 2007. Not all their slim products have this feature yet, but by 2008, it is expected that more phones with a slim factor will be using this improved feature. After all, camera phones are expected to account for 74 percent of the market in 2007, with higher resolution camera phones expected to reach 38 percent in 2008. What does this mean for Samsung? With the rise in demand of slim phones, Samsung has more or less made 2008 the year of the digital camera and for phones as well.

Better Memory

In an interesting development, Samsung has also made another announcement. We’re sure you have all heard of 4 to 8 gigabyte memory cards coming out soon. But can you imagine 64GB cards in your cameras? Samsung says they will be shipping them in 2008, having discovered a way to cram all that storage into the same amount of space that memory cards have today! Although this may seem a little much, it looks like the target for these storage devices are digital cameras that are available to record video as well. Of course, digital manufacturers will have to upgrade their cameras to be able to cater to such monster storage chips like these. But it’s everybody’s guess as to whether or not Samsung will be the first on that as well.