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| First digital camera ever built. |
The image on the left is the camera developed at Eastman Kodak. - Pretty close to how digital cameras look like today ;-)
It used to be called a handheld camera. Quite bulky compared with what we call handheld today.
Interesting is the cassette tape as storage device for the images.
This camera was the result of a project run by Steve Sasson. The scope of this project was to come up with an application for the charge-coupled device, CCD. The result was a prototype camera with no moving parts as a first application of the 100x100 pixel CCD sensor. It took pictures in black and white.
Interestingly Kodak never managed to leverage this leadership in innovation of disruptive technology for the world of photography. Even decades later, Kodak still saw itself as a specialty chemicals and not as an image processing company.
“My prototype was big as a toaster, but the technical people loved it,” Mr. Sasson said. “But it was filmless photography, so management’s reaction was, ‘that’s cute — but don’t tell anyone about it."
Watch the interview with Steve Sasson for some insights into the development of this first application of digital image sensors.
Interesting is the cassette tape as storage device for the images.
This camera was the result of a project run by Steve Sasson. The scope of this project was to come up with an application for the charge-coupled device, CCD. The result was a prototype camera with no moving parts as a first application of the 100x100 pixel CCD sensor. It took pictures in black and white.
Interestingly Kodak never managed to leverage this leadership in innovation of disruptive technology for the world of photography. Even decades later, Kodak still saw itself as a specialty chemicals and not as an image processing company.
“My prototype was big as a toaster, but the technical people loved it,” Mr. Sasson said. “But it was filmless photography, so management’s reaction was, ‘that’s cute — but don’t tell anyone about it."
Watch the interview with Steve Sasson for some insights into the development of this first application of digital image sensors.
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