Steve Sasson, Digital Camera Inventor

Kodak's Steve Sasson talks about inventing the world's first digital camera.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Digital
• Camera
• Inventor
• Kodak

[MacHamish]

Thank you Steve Sasson, thank you.

[Zoomlens]

@TheRainbow101 You're quite welcome. I'm proud to say I know Steve Sasson, and he's really the nicest person you'd even want to meet, very down to earth for someone who made such a huge contribution to photography.

[WinbookXL3]

Now Kodak Is In Bankruptcy & Discontinued There Camera Product Line :(

[melbop]

Yes but now kodak is filing for bankruptcy protection how can that happen if they R&D the digital camera? How can that happen ?

[TelisRafa]

He must be really excited seeing the H4D 200ms from hasselblad being the best Dslr and still uses CCD sensor. Thank you Steve Sasson my hobby,job,and partly life is build on your invention.

[clemstevenson]

These days, we almost take this kind of technology for granted. But the amount of development that went into such things was huge and diverse. The development of this stuff involved many disciplines. So many pioneers behind every component. Nowadays, digital cameras are so sophisticated that they provide automatic everything, as well as doubling as tapeless HD camcorders. But I personally recall the days when data cassettes were a common storage medium, rather than using 8-inch floppies.

[vonnieglen]

You have got to love these people who come on here and say that Kodak has the worst digital cameras on the market. I was an early adopter of consumer grade digital cameras. I have had several Kodak digital cameras along with several other brands. All of the Kodak digital cameras I have owned have been very good values. Most consumer brands are not defined by the high end, but by how much functionality their affordable cameras offer. In my experience Kodak has been a leader in that arena.

[salomon2600]

A kodak employee may have invented it but Kodak killed it fearing it would eat into it's film business. By the time Kodak entered the digital camera market, they were already behind the curve. Although Kodak camera's are the easiest to use, they are still among the slowest. Olympus and Sony are also playing catch up but gaining on Canon and Nikon. Kodak still lags far behind.

[tmenator]

@dinnerandashow I work primarily with a Canon Digital Rebel DSLR. However, my pocket camera is a Kodak Easyshare C533 which i purchased at a pawn shop, It has always given me satisfactory results.

[neverlookback75]

Amazing. It'd be interesting to see him explain the internals in general and how some of the things worked and what he did that didn't work. And how some of those same concepts are or are not used in todays cameras.

[Zanzimanus]

Thanks STEVE - very much!