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first eloctronic camera from Texas Instruments
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1975 - The first recorded attempt at building a digital camera. The camera weighed 8 pounds, recorded black and white images to a cassette tape, had a resolution of 0.01 megapixel, and took 23 seconds to capture its first image.
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Kodak scientists invent the world’s first megapixel sensor, capable of recording 1.4 million pixels that could produce a 5×7-inch digital photo-quality print.
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Kodak shows a hacked Nikon body with a Kodak sensor at Photokina called the DCS. It was 1 MP and cost $25,000. It shipped in 1991. The first entirely digital camera is available to consumers. The Logitech FotoMan records in black and white and at less than one-tenth of a megapixel.
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1991 - Kodak presents the DSC 100, which is considered the first useful digital camera for general sale. The 1.3-megapixel camera retails at $20,000.
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1994 - The Apple QuickTake 100 is the first consumer-oriented color digital camera. It retails at about $1,000.
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1995 - The first consumer camera with a liquid crystal display on the back was the Casio QV-10.
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1996 - Thee first camera to use CompactFlash was the Kodak DC-25
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1999 - The Nikon D1, the first digital SLR designed and manufactured by a single camera company is released. It is 2.7 megapixels.
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2003 - Canon’s 6.3 megapixel EOS Digital Rebel is available for less than $1,000. It is the first digital SLR to make a major impact on the consumer market.
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2003 - Digital camera sales exceed film camera sales for the first time.
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kodaks not making film cameras anymore
