Photojournalism and Katrina

I was looking at the news photos of NOLA. They are, unfortunately, quite clear and graphic. I assume virtually all of them were taken with digital cameras, since they appeared on the Web and in print so quickly. It's a comment on how far digital has progressed that the pictures are as clear as they are. (Looking at the some of the pictures made me queasy and I was almost sorry they were so clear)

I wonder if Katrina is the first major American catastrophe covered exclusively with digital cameras. (Assuming of course, that all the cameras were digital.)

I would be surprised if many of the World Trade Center disaster pictures were not digital. Though my few were taken from City Island, my home at the time, and not very spectacular, they were taken with my digital camera and I was by no means the first kid on the block to own one.

Jim