When Were Digital Cameras Invented

In 1814 the first photograph was ever taken, using a camera that was made out of wooden box. The photograph back then was not a permanent thing and it faded away. This was happening in Paris.

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As far as the first camera to be coming out on the market, were analogue, after a century had passed, the digital cameras were invented. What digital cameras have as a main difference between their predecessors is the fact that they do not use a film, but they send the photographs to the digital memory card.

The concept of digitizing images was first announced on1961 at a space conference. However, they did not have the necessary tools to create the actual machine back then. The person that invented the digital camera is known under the name Steven Sasson. He invented and eight pounds digital camera that had the size of a toaster nowadays. The resolution was very low, 0, 01 megapixels and saved the image in black and white onto a digital cassette. 

After his invention it took another sixteen years for the Kodak Company to start selling the digital cameras. When he started his invention he had to construct everything from the beginning. The first digital photo took about 23 seconds to record onto the cassette and another 23 seconds to read from the cassette onto a TV.



Therefore, the true date when were digital cameras invented, was 1988, when a Fuji DS – 1P camera recorded the first digital images. As this was not commercialized, the first digital camera to be commercialized was the 1990 Dycam Model 1, using a CCD image sensor, storing images digitally, and it was able to be connected to a computer when downloading.

As a beginning of a long line of professional items, Kodak released its first camera in 1991. It was called using a 1.3 megapixels sensor and being priced at $13,000. What allowed the analogue to become digital, when were digital cameras invented, is the movement that they did from the formation of JPEG and MPEG formats, that allowed images and video files to be compressed for storage.



Then the digital cameras that were made for the consumer market and could be used with a home computer via a serial cable, were the Kodak DC40 and the Sony Cyber Shot Digital Still Camera.

In order to have the expected results and appreciation and as well selling, Kodak went into an aggressive marketing campaign both to promote the camera and to introduce the idea if digital photography to the general public. In the making of the digital imaging software various companies collaborated with Kodak.

If it was kind of hard to bring them to the market back then, nowadays, in each home there is a digital camera lying around.