Kodak's FIRST digital camera

[D-Rod]

Wow, that is way older than I would have thought.

Kodak’s first digital camera, circa 1975, was a real clunker

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/05/kodaks...i.php#more

[Paul F.]

Whoa!

With a CASSETTE TAPE drive too!

I remember using one of those on my Commodore 128! Didn't work real well, but I used it!

[kap]

Man, how much does that thing weight?

[Acer]

Oddly enough, it was a Consumer Reports Best Buy.

[deckeda]

Back then they were called "point and shoot and replace the cassette" Failed in the marketplace due to lack of catchy name.

[Mac1337]

I don't dee the merit of a digital picture without computers.

[D-Rod]

It does use a computer to show the image. Check the link above.

[GGD]

This technology had to start somewhere. 20 years later here's what they were producing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake

Around that same time in the mid 70s, in college I was playing around with a digital video camera (B/W only). The camera was quite a bit smaller than that and was much faster (no cassettes), but also required a large mini-computer. I wrote software to record video to reels of 9-track tape and play it back to a digital CRT display that we also had. I still have a low quality print of me taken with that camera.

[Grumpyguy]

Thanks for the link.

This is just danged interesting!

[Racer X]

is that the first gigapixel camera?