CNN News: 數(shù)碼相機的重要性

數(shù)碼相機

AZUZ: CNN has used a lot of hurricane footagethat people captured on their phones. Digitalphotography is something we just tend to usewithout thinking about it. But 41 years ago, whenthe first digital camera was made, it weighed aroundeight pounds, it took 23 seconds to record its firstpicture and the resolution was 1/100 of 1megapixel.

阿祖茲：CNN使用了很多人們用手機拍攝的颶風(fēng)影像。數(shù)碼攝影是我們不用考慮就會使用的一種技術(shù)。41年前，第一臺數(shù)碼相機誕生時重約8磅，記錄第一張照片用了23秒鐘，分辨率為10,000 像素。

So, maybe all that's why Kodak wasn't in a hurry to invest in the technology.

這可能就是柯達(dá)公司不急于投資這一科技的原因。

RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The great irony of Frankenstein is that thedoctor's greatest discovery, creating a living, breathing human from dead matter led to hisdemise. Kodak can relate.

CNN記者蕾切爾•克萊恩：弗蘭肯斯坦博士最大的諷刺是，他最偉大的發(fā)明——用沒有生命的物質(zhì)創(chuàng)造出會呼吸的鮮活生命，最終卻導(dǎo)致了他的死亡?？逻_(dá)也是如此。

One of their engineers, Steven Sasson, invented the first digital camera in 1975.

1975年，柯達(dá)工程師史蒂文•賽尚發(fā)明了世界上第一臺數(shù)碼相機。

They called the technology filmless photography. But they were never able to capitalize on it.In fact, their competitors trounced them in the digital photography space. And in 2012, 131years after its founding, the company filed for bankruptcy protection. By then, an estimated2.5 billion people owned digital cameras.

他們把這項技術(shù)稱之為“無片化攝影”。但是他們未能加以利用這一技術(shù)。實際上，他們的競爭者在數(shù)碼攝影領(lǐng)域擊敗了他們。2012年，也就是柯達(dá)公司成立131年后，柯達(dá)申請了破產(chǎn)保護。當(dāng)時，擁有數(shù)碼相機的人約為25億。

And that changed the business, too — especially this business, journalism. Video and imagescaptured on digital cameras could be instantly reviewed and transmitted all across the world.

這一技術(shù)改變了各個行業(yè)，尤其新聞界的變革最顯著。用數(shù)碼相機拍攝的視頻和圖片可以馬上查看，還可以在世界各地傳播。

The first journalists to use digital camera for the "Associated Press" did so at the first Bushinauguration in 1989, and cell phone cameras have made every citizen a potential reporter.

第一位使用數(shù)碼相機的記者來自美聯(lián)社，這名記者在布什于1989年就職時使用了數(shù)碼相機，手機相機使每個公民都有成為記者的可能。

Time and time again, footage captured by amateurs on digital cameras has been vital firsthand sources of information, even medicine has benefitted.

業(yè)余人士用數(shù)碼相機拍攝的影像一次又一次地成為極其重要的第一手信息來源，甚至醫(yī)學(xué)也因此而受益。

Doctors can see inside your body, thanks to tiny digital cameras, and then they can store andshare those images quickly and easily with colleagues across the globe.

得益于微型數(shù)碼相機，醫(yī)生可以看到你身體內(nèi)部的情況，而且他們可以儲存圖像，并可以迅速又方便地同世界各地的醫(yī)生分享這些圖像。

The list goes on and on, but if you could excuse me, I have to go Facetime with my mom.

這樣的例子不勝枚舉，現(xiàn)在請容我失陪一下，我要用Facetime和我媽媽視頻通話了。