How the digital camera was born.
that it is repurposing some of the expensive, high-tech machines used to manufacture its photography film to produce batteries for electric vehicles .In June 1973, Sasson graduated with a master’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. The same month he landed his first [and last] job at Kodak.
“I stole the lens from our used parts bin on the manufacturing floor of the XL movie cameras,” explains Sasson. “Because the super eight movie format was larger than the active area of the CCD, I could place this in the film plane of the XL movie camera assembly, and it would work. “I would walk in with my crazy-looking camera, which was about the size of a toaster, but I could hold it,” Sasson says. “I took pictures of people in the room before I said anything. Then I took out the tape that the digital information was stored on and put it in the playback unit when a picture popped up on the TV screen. And that generally got everybody’s attention.”“Indeed, they didn’t ask me how this worked,” Sasson says.
The young inventor was asked all the time [at Kodak] when he thought this would be viable for consumers. And, of course, he did not know. “It was an odd-looking device with all the electronic things hanging out, a lens on the front of it, a viewfinder. She sat there, and I took a head and shoulders shot of her, and that was the first snapshot taken with a digital camera of a person.”The first digital photographer took out the camera back and removed the tape. He put it in the playback machine and what he saw on the TV was her head and shoulder-length hair, which was black.
“It took about an hour to figure that out. Then I reversed some wires, and it was easier to reverse wires than change the software then, and the pictures showed up in proper form. So, it wasn’t just the fidelity of the image. It was also the convenience and the structure and infrastructure with it. “I had to go to analogies when I was presenting. I said, think of the future camera as a calculator that had just been coming out. HP came out with their HP 35 a few years before, and others were coming out with calculators. That was the only digital product that was somewhat of a consumer product.
This was roughly a decade before the Macintosh computer was unleashed on the world and about a quarter century before Windows XP appeared. To Kodak management, the word “digital” was risky and unknown. Here’s the technical report Sasson wrote, titled “A Hand-held Electronic Still Camera and its Playback System”:“The camera itself I have kept; it still exists. It’s up in Kodak now,” says the inventor. “It was in the Smithsonian for several years. They brought it back and have it in the museum at Kodak. I kept the camera. I shouldn’t have. It was paid for with R&D dollars. You’re supposed to destroy all that stuff when you’re done with it. Tax thing.
The president evidently likes to take pictures, and met with him privately and had a good conversation about photography. He learned that the president would steal“I was not trying to take fantastic [images] as I was limited by the device I was working with,” Sasson says about his pioneering work in digital photography. “It was the only one of its kind and was brand-new. What I was trying to demonstrate was a photographic system.
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