What amazes me is the quotes from the Kodak executives. Of course hindsight is 20/20, and there was no way they could have had the insight into what digital imagery could become way in the future. It looked like a toy at that time.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for posting that. > > I think something has to be clarified there. The called it > "the world’s first digital camera." > I suspect, it should be "a the world's first self-contained camera". > > The famous picture (circa 1974) of Boyle and Smith, the inventors of CCD > (1969, Nobel Prize 2009), Smith and Boyle, > http://www.businessinsider.com/digital-photography-revolution-2015-4 > pictures them with a digital camera. > (It probably didn't have "recording" portion, but you still call a CCTV > camera - a camera.) > > > BTW, the same inventors had a self-contained camera built too: > https://journals.aps.org/rmp/pdf/10.1103/RevModPhys.82.2307 > (See Fig. 13) > Unfortunately, that article doesn't mention when they did that. > > You might notice in this article a "picturephone". :-) > > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > > > Gonz Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:31:30 -0700 wrote: > > https://petapixel.com/2017/09/21/kodak-said-digital-photography-1975/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
