Dixel 2000 picture transmitter case

Digital photo-transmitters facilitated the work of photojournalists at the end of the 1980s. From this time, photographers were no longer dependent on analog telegraphy. They were now able to simply scan in their negatives and send them to their editorial office—provided that they could find a telephone connection and had a photo transmitter, which cost the equivalent of 40,000 EUR ($49,114). Negative scanners used with a laptop and the first digital cameras could do this for a fraction of the sum from 1991.