Reflection: is there a relationship between the birth of computing and digital photography?

As a computer science professional, I am conditioned by my background and my perception of "computing" and "digital" terms. 

For this reason, I dare not agree with what Geoffrey Batchen said:

"......It is not difficult to establish the chronological and personal links between the inventions of computing and photography. Historians like to trace the development of modern computing back to the pioneering efforts of English philosopher and mathematician Charles Babbage (1792–1871). ......"

(Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen, 2000 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, chpt. 8, page 165)

In my opinion, the real link between computing and photography was created when the "analog" reality could be sampled and represented through a set of binary digits. 

The exploitation on a very large scale, and with the intervention of very great computational power, of the binary representation, thus began the exploitation, at any level and on representations of any nature, of that dimension that we all identify with the adjective, by now very popular, of "digital".

All the information on which the process of acquiring an image through photodiode sensors is based, through storage and up to digital printing, is stored and processed in sequences of binary digits (bits). 

Without base two arithmetic and the use of ferrite cores to store bits, digital audio, digital video, digital photography would not even have been born. 

For this reason, I would prefer to place the germ of the link between computing and digital photography at the beginning of the eighteenth century, thanks to the work of the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, later taken up and developed in 1847 by the English mathematician George Boole. 

Furthermore, the first binary storage system, preceded by embryos of electronic computers such as Touring's machine and Von Neumann's scheme, is due to the German Konrad Zuse.

When we appreciate the fine-art print of a very high-resolution image today, we should thank the legacy of these discoveries and the exponential growth of binary storage and representation.