2007-03-13 20:10:21 · 3 answers · asked by Martha K 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
The first recorded attempt at building a digital camera was by Steve Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak. It used the then-new solid state CCD chips developed by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1973. The camera weighed 8 pounds (3.6 kg), recorded black and white images to a cassette tape, had a resolution of 0.01 megapixel (10,000 pixels), and took 23 seconds to capture its first image in December of 1975. The prototype camera was a technical exercise, not intended for production, and it still existed as of 2005.
2007-03-13 20:19:05 · answer #1 · answered by Isa 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The CCD was invented in 1969 by Willard Boyle and George E. Smith at AT&T Bell Labs. Fairchild was the first with commercial devices and by 1974 had a linear 500 element device and a 2-D 100 x 100 pixel device.
2007-03-17 23:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by dand370 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kodak.
2007-03-14 04:29:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋