A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera
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#2Cool story!
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#3Kodak invented the thing that killed them.
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#4Kodak invented the thing that killed them.
> "It's really not a very fair statement to say that they missed the digital photography that they actually had invented," he says.
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#5Kodak invented the thing that killed them.
I mean, it was one of those inevitable technologies.
Other companies had already invented the CCD, it was only a matter of time before someone would digitise the signal and pair it with a storage device. It was an obvious concept.
All Kodak really did was develop an obvious concept into a prototype many years before it could be viable, and then receive a patent for it.
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#6engineers were probably screaming about digital. middle management (who are the only ones irreplaceable by ai btw) probably called it a fad
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#7Amazing, a whole article about a camera without a single photo from that camera
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#8Amazing, a whole article about a camera without a single photo from that camera
I wonder if any exist on the internet and if the camera is still functional.
Edit: it's very likely that no photos exist because the tapes were being reused and there are many reasons why the camera has been nonfunctional for a long time now.
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#9A very similar PetaPixel article with a couple more technical details: [1] In particular, it describes the reason for the first corrupted image – they had wired the four-bit output in the wrong order so that the high bit was the lowest and vice versa. Thus, all-ones still looked white and all-zeros black, but the rest of the shades were scrambled.
[1] https://petapixel.com/how-steve-sasson-invented-the-digital-...
Re: A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera
#10Amazing, a whole article about a camera without a single photo from that camera
I wonder if any exist on the internet and if the camera is still functional. Edit: it's very likely that no photos exist because the tapes were being reused and there are many reasons why the camera has been nonfunctional for a long time now.
Yeah, the camera probably hasn't been in functioning condition for decades and people at Kodak likely didn't see much historical value in archiving those tapes.