History of digital photography – digital cameras come to Earth!

History of digital photography – digital cameras come to Earth!

Following the exploits of digital cameras in space, the concept of photography without film came back to Earth in 1973. An engineer, Steven Sasson, working for Kodak used a CCD to produce a digital image.

This camera weighed in at a hefty 8 pounds. And it only had 0.1 megapixels - not really designed for the consumer then!

To be fair, it was experimental rather than commercial. Importantly though it truly was a digital camera in the way we are familiar, because it recorded images onto a solid chip (CCD) rather than onto tape.

Clearly more development was needed. At this point people were beginning to realise that digital cameras may have a use back here on Earth.

Nobody expected film to be replaced by digital cameras at this stage though. The first consumer digital cameras are still some way off. Click to continue with the history of digital cameras - the early consumer digitals, or go back to the history of digital photography home page.

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