F-STOP: How Digital Eclipsed the Film Camera

It's been a remarkable run. Daguerre developed his device for capturing images nearly 170 years ago, and since that time, and especially since erstwhile bank clerk George Eastman gave up his steady salary to form the Eastman Kodak company in 1888, the camera had almost come to symbolise personal technology, a bit of science that most could use consistently.

This became particularly true with the introduction, in the early 1930s, of the 35mm single reflex camera - the closest ancestor of the hand-held cameras of today - and also with the introduction, in 1948, of the instant picture, or Polaroid camera.

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