DIGITAL CAMERA(1975)

SASSON ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS.

The camera which produce a digital image which can be stored in computer and display on screen.

They are so commonplace today that many people even added them to digital watches.
Digital cameras are now taken for granted, but it was only in 1975 that the first prototype was produced.

Steve Sasson had recently graduated in electrical engineering before taking a job with Kodak. His assignment was a broad one: was it possible to make a camera using solid state electronic? Starting from scratch, he gathered together various piece of electronic equipment including movie camera lens, an analog to digital converter, and, most importantly, charge coupled devices(CCDs).

By December 1975 Sassons rough prototype was ready for initial testing. Weighing in at 8 pounds(3.6 kg) and size of a toaster, camera was hardly portable, but Sasson convinced a lab assistant to pose for a test shot. It took twenty three seconds for the images to be recorded onto a cassette and then an additional twenty three seconds to be read from the tape before appearing on a television screen.

Over the next year, Sasson and his colleagues presented his invention to Kodak officials. The response, however, was often less than encouraging. The employees of a company best known for making camera film were understandably perplexed at the notion of a camera that required no film. Why would anyone want to view their photos on a television? How could you store these digital image? Ultimately, the rapid increase in computer capabilities would solve these issue, but it was still many years before digital camera started to replace traditional film

digital camera stores pictures stores in a electronic memory instead of film.it use a image sensor instead of photographic film.the digital camera hold more pictures than traditional camera. the digital camera can sometimes hold hundred and thousands of images