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Photography History in One Minute - The First Digital Camera in History

2026.2.2

It's a good day to go out to take pictures, and when you enjoy the convenience brought by the camera equipment in our hands, you might as well talk about the birth of digital cameras.

Let's turn the calendar back to 1975, in the laboratory of film giant Kodak, engineer Steven Sasson assembled a camera based on the then-invented CCD sensor, which weighed 3.6 kg, was powered by 16 nickel-cadmium batteries, and the storage medium was a cassette tape, and the lens was from a 9-21mm zoom lens removed from a Kodak Super 8 cinema camera with an aperture of f/1.2.



Steven Sasson with the first digital camera


The performance parameters of this camera look impressive today:

Resolution up to 10,000 pixels (Canon R5 released in 2020 has about 45 million pixels)!

Capable of shooting black and white images with rich colors!

After taking a photo, it only takes 23 seconds to write the data to tape!

It's very convenient to connect it to a special TV and play it back!





Photo taken by this camera




So many "benefits" have not been enthusiastically responded to by Kodak's executives, who are worried that digital cameras will impact their film business. However, it turned out that Kodak missed out on the opportunity to become a pioneer of digital cameras, and a few years later, the descendants of this bulky machine changed the way we recorded the world and ended the glory of the Kodak film empire.

Because it was never intended to be introduced to the market, Kodak's marketing department never gave it a product name, it only has an extremely simple and straightforward engineering name: "Electronic Still Camera" (electronic still camera), and the production is naturally the only one, maybe we can talk about the world's first digital camera for the market another day, see you soon!


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