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If one searches the web for the first digital camera, one sees postings about it being made at Kodak in 1975, and was a mere 0.01 megapixel camera that took 32 seconds to write the image. However, that one was not first. In 1971 a 256 x 256 pixel digital camera was made (0.065 megapixel) and took less than 4 seconds to write the image. I've written an article about the creators of the camera to set the record straight:
http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/...igital.camera/
Roger
Great article. And thanks for making the effort to correct this oversight, proper credit should always be given to the pioneers.
Barry
Thanks Roger. You were there at the beginning!
I remember using a Sony Mavica 640 x 480 px camera in the mid-1990s. It had a 3.5" floppy drive to record digital images. I still have a few of the images and they are really quite horrible!
Very nice read, thanks!
Mark
The first digital camera I remember using was in the early '90's. It was actually a digital back produced by a company called Dicomed, who later earned their true "fame and fortune" by perfecting the digital film recorder used for computer graphics slide output... The Dicomed camera was a beast!
