World's First Digital Camera
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World's First Digital Camera
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Ahhhhh the 70’s… the decade where the first Star Wars movie was released, where afro haircuts where all the rage, and where the first digital camera came into existence. Yep, you read that right! In 1975, Kodak released the world’s first digital camera prototype, a clunky-looking device that used casette tapes as the medium to store pictures. Each photo took 23 seconds to snap, producing a 100-line black and white image that could only be displayed on a television set. No wonder why it never became popular.
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Ahhhhh the 70’s… the decade where the first Star Wars movie was released, where afro haircuts where all the rage, and where the first digital camera came into existence. Yep, you read that right! In 1975, Kodak released the world’s first digital camera prototype, a clunky-looking device that used casette tapes as the medium to store pictures. Each photo took 23 seconds to snap, producing a 100-line black and white image that could only be displayed on a television set. No wonder why it never became popular.
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
awesome!
Love the audio cassette tape!
Love the audio cassette tape!
It has gone on to become a very rare and sought after underground/cult item.
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Originally Posted by stogie1020
awesome!
Love the audio cassette tape!
Love the audio cassette tape!
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Originally Posted by moeronn
You're old enough to remember when computers used audio cassettes for data storage. My older bro had one for his Comodore Vic 20 or 64. Not sure when he upgraded to the ~$500 5.25" floppy drive.
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Yup. Had a PET, too.
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Originally Posted by Dan Martin
I've got an old 0.13MP Kodak that was the first digital to take CF cards. That's about as old as I've ever seen. 
I believe that topped out at 800x600.
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Originally Posted by Kikaida
A friend of mine had a Kodak DC40!
That was the first Digital Camera I ever saw.
That was the first Digital Camera I ever saw.
I've got the DC25. High res was 493x373 and it could only hold 14 shots at that resolution. Standard resolution was good for 30 shots, but they were about the size of your avatar
I think it still works, so I'll try to fire it up today. I believe it takes the old film-body lithium batteries, so I'll hunt around for a pair and see if I can figure out how to. I think the biggest trick will be trying to find a small enough flash card. I believe the max it can recognize is 4MB (not GB!) and that holds something like 400 shots.
If I can't find a card, I'd have to use the internal memory, then find a way of accessing the files directly. Somehow I doubt they've released Vista drivers...
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Originally Posted by Sarlacc
Fisher Price used to make a camera back in teh day for kids called pixelvision that recorded to an video to a audio cassette tape.
It has gone on to become a very rare and sought after underground/cult item.
It has gone on to become a very rare and sought after underground/cult item.
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