<P> Competing screen plate products soon appeared and film - based versions were eventually made . All were expensive and until the 1930s none was "fast" enough for hand - held snapshot - taking, so they mostly served a niche market of affluent advanced amateurs . </P> <P> A new era in color photography began with the introduction of Kodachrome film, available for 16 mm home movies in 1935 and 35 mm slides in 1936 . It captured the red, green, and blue color components in three layers of emulsion . A complex processing operation produced complementary cyan, magenta, and yellow dye images in those layers, resulting in a subtractive color image . Maxwell's method of taking three separate filtered black - and - white photographs continued to serve special purposes into the 1950s and beyond, and Polachrome, an "instant" slide film that used the Autochrome's additive principle, was available until 2003, but the few color print and slide films still being made in 2015 all use the multilayer emulsion approach pioneered by Kodachrome . </P> <P> In 1957, a team led by Russell A. Kirsch at the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed a binary digital version of an existing technology, the wirephoto drum scanner, so that alphanumeric characters, diagrams, photographs and other graphics could be transferred into digital computer memory . One of the first photographs scanned was a picture of Kirsch's infant son Walden . The resolution was 176x176 pixels with only one bit per pixel, i.e., stark black and white with no intermediate gray tones, but by combining multiple scans of the photograph done with different black - white threshold settings, grayscale information could also be acquired . </P> <P> The charge - coupled device (CCD) is the image - capturing optoelectronic component in first - generation digital cameras . It was invented in 1969 by Willard Boyle and George E. Smith at AT&T Bell Labs as a memory device . The lab was working on the Picturephone and on the development of semiconductor bubble memory . Merging these two initiatives, Boyle and Smith conceived of the design of what they termed "Charge' Bubble' Devices". The essence of the design was the ability to transfer charge along the surface of a semiconductor . It was Dr. Michael Tompsett from Bell Labs however, who discovered that the CCD could be used as an imaging sensor . The CCD has increasingly been replaced by the active pixel sensor (APS), commonly used in cell phone cameras . These mobile phone cameras are used by billions of people worldwide, dramatically increasing photographic activity and material and also fueling citizen journalism . </P>

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