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How Steve Sasson Invented the Digital CameraIn December 1975, an engineer named Steven Sasson snapped a photo with the world's first fully digital camera at a Kodak lab. It took 23 seconds to record a 100-by-100-pixel image to cassette tape.
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The Fujix DS-1P was the world's first commercial digital camera. It wrote digital files to solid-state memory cards, but was available only in Japan for a brief time. Resolution = 0.4 MP
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More on the Dycam DigiBarn Cameras The Dycam was the first digital camera sold in the United States. Resolution: 376 by 240 pixels (0.09MP), 256 levels of gray.
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Kodak DCS Wikipedia Starting in 1991, Kodak produced camera systems that paired Nikon bodies with Kodak digital sensors in place of film. The original DCS cost $20,000 and required a tethered hard-disk system.
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This early digital camera, developed by Kodak, was able to capture images in 24-bit color.
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Forges the Way for Camera Phones The Olympus Deltis VC-1100 incorporated a modem for transmission of photos over regular phone lines. Resolution: 768 by 576 pixels (0.44MP).
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The Casio QV-10 The Casio QV-10 was the first consumer digital camera to include a built-in LCD screen. Resolution: 320 by 240 pixels (0.07MP).
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RDC 1 Specifications The Ricoh RDC1 was the first digital still camera to record video. Resolution: 768 by 576 (0.44MP).
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The Nikon Coolpix plugged into a laptop's PC Card slot to transfer pictures. Resolution: 512 by 480 (0.24MP).
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Press Release The Kodak DC25 was the first to use Compact Flash media for storage. Resolution: 493 x 373 pixels (0.18MP).
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Sony Mavica Camera The FD5 was the first digital camera to write to 3.5-inch floppy disks for photo storage. Resolution: 640 by 480 pixels (0.3MP).
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This was one of the first toy digital cameras on the market. It could store only six photos, but retailed for under $100. Resolution: 160 by 120 (0.02MP).
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Nikon D1 Wikipedia This was the first fully integrated digital single-lens reflex camera (SLRs). It was notable for using lenses from its equivalent system in the 35mm film world. Resolution: 2000 by 1312 pixels (2.62MP).
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The Mavica CD1000 wrote to miniature CD-R discs. Resolution: 1600 by 1200 pixels (1.92MP).
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The Canon S100 pushed digital pocket cameras toward smaller sizes and higher resolutions. Resolution: 1600 by 1200 pixels (1.92MP).
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Camera Review Canon's first "home grown" digital SLR, built from the ground up to be a digital SLR. Resolution: 2160 by 1440 (3.11MP).
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DCRP Review The Exilim continued the trend of small but powerful with its tiny, almost credit-card dimensions. Resolution: 1280 by 960 pixels (1.22MP).
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Luminous Landscape The Contax N Digital was the first camera to include a CCD sensor the size of a full 35mm frame. Resolution: 3040 by 2008 pixels (6.1MP).
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DP Review The EOS-1Ds was Canon's first full-frame camera. Resolution: 4064 by 2704 pixels (10.99MP).
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The Canon D300 was the first digital SLR under $1000. Resolution: 3072 by 2048 pixels (6.29MP).
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The Olympus E-1 was the first camera to use the Four-Thirds SLR system. Resolution: 2560 by 1920 pixels (4.91MP).
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Wikipedia Epson's R-D1 was the first digital rangefinder camera. Resolution: 3008 by 2000 pixels (6.01MP).
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Luminous Landscape The D3X is currently Nikon's top-of-the-line digital SLR, and it's targeted squarely at professional photographers. Resolution: 6048 by 4032 pixels (24.38MP).
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Fujifilm's Real 3D W3 is the first consumer digital camera that can shoot 3D photographs (and video). Resolution: 3648 by 2736 (9.98 MP).
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YouTube Clip Sony's DSC-TX7 is a full-featured pocket point-and-shoot with intelligent panorama features. Resolution: 3648 by 2736 (9.98 MP).
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DP Review The 645D is the first medium-format DSLR to sell for under $10,000, potentially opening up the exotic world of high-end, superhigh-resolution photography to a whole new audience. We've come a long way from the 100-by-100-pixel images of 37 years ago. Resolution: 7264 by 5440 pixels (39.51MP).
