Communication · 1975

Digital camera

A Kodak engineer records a 0.01-megapixel image to cassette tape in 23 seconds.

Steven Sasson built the first self-contained digital camera at Kodak in 1975 using a CCD image sensor. Digital sensors displaced film by the late 2000s, and cameras built into phones now take over a trillion photos a year.

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What it built on 2

Integrated circuit 1958
Photography 1839

What it led to 1

Online video (YouTube) 2005

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The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Cost of memory and storage Latest: Memory: 1.09k $/TB (2023) Source: Our World in Data