THE FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES OF THE MEDIA DIGITAL IMAGING AND ITS PROFOUND DIFFERENCES TO SILVER-HALIDE BASED PHOTOGRAPHY

The concept of using computers to process images is more than 30 years old. Besides secret military applications, the technology was first u sed publicly in the NASA unmanned planetary science program in the mid dle 1960's. Since then, digital image processing technology evolved ra pidly into other scientific areas. Until the middle 1980's, people in the graphic arts industry were unaware of the possibilities of digital Image processing, but today this technology is the hot topic. However , digital imaging is not only a technical development of conventional imagery, it is an entire new media, which will change the perception a nd significance of all mechanical images such as photographic-, video- or film-images in a revolutionary way.