Trend of Digital Still Camera and Brief View on its Format

Abstract

Communications by means of the image are the advanced cultures that only the human being has been possessing. For the purpose to support this culture, camera was invented as a means to leave images, then a lot of technological innovations have been applied on it.
Among these innovations, Digital still camera (DSC) that had been born in Japan in 1988 is an epoch-making equipment that brought a big change for the position of the camera from a chemical equipment into an electronic information equipment.
DSC has been expanding its market places taking advantages of progress of necessary fundamental technologies and change of environmental conditions. It can be enumerated as one of the factors which promoted this rapid launch of DSC that the industry was almost unified to employ the international standard format “Exif/DCF" which had been developed by Japan and provided consumers with situation to choose DSCs without hesitation avoiding unnecessary competition between different standards.
Here shown a brief historical view of the DSC from its birth till now, then technologies that supported the progress of DSCs is described. Also the outline of Exif/DCF is described along with the purpose and content of the revision which had been applied on both Exif and DCF. In addition, technical view on DSC and various problems which surround DSC are described.