Digital camera
Cámara digital
- Date
- 1975 · confidence high
- Place
- Eastman Kodak, Rochester, New York, United States
- Credited to
- Steven Sasson (Kodak, 0.01-megapixel prototype); first commercial models Dycam Model 1 (1990) and Kodak DCS (1991)
- People
- 👤 Steven Sasson1950–
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A camera that records the image on an electronic sensor and stores it in digital memory, without film. Kodak shelved it to protect its film business and was destroyed by that decision.
What it led to
- The end of Kodak and photographic film
- Ubiquitous photography and image-based social networks
- Selfie culture and the permanent documentation of life
Built on
Made possible
- CMOS active-pixel sensor and camera phone1993-2000
- mobile phone camera
- computational photography