Nowadays cameras are everywhere. Cell phones, computers, video game consoles, digital cameras, glasses with built-in lenses, the ways to take digital photographs are countless.
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But this changed him Steven SassonHe was an electronics engineer working at Kodak and Inventor of the first digital camera in history.
The device was a 3.6 kg cube that looked like a camera atop a computer tower. It was about the size of a toaster, and Sasson took the first photo with it. 1975. This first photo was a portrait of a laboratory technician named Joy and unfortunately it could not be saved.
The camera only had one button and I was using it for everything. The first press turned on the camera and took a photo a second time.
After the photo was taken, the camera digitized it and saved it to the memory card inserted into the bottom compartment. Also on the back of the device a cassette player, the only digital storage medium available at the time.
(You may be interested in: Fujifilm offers the INSTAX Pal camera that you can carry in your pocket).
The cassette had the capacity to store up to 30 photographsIt is a number specifically chosen by Sasson because it is a midpoint between 24 and 36; are the quantities most commonly found on photo rolls.
“I think the key when trying to bring an idea to life is, first of all, understanding the culture you’re dealing with. Build something that works the way the culture is already used to it and add only the essential elements of your ideaAs advice for entrepreneurs and creatives, Sasson explains in a short video from David Friedman’s mini-series ‘Portraits of Inventors’, “to avoid doing things that will come back to the confusing concept.”
(Interesting: Nikon continues to sell SLR cameras).
“Also, remember that while you are inventing, the rest of the world is inventing things at the same time; so when the idea matures you will be in a completely different world. “I think it was the same with the digital camera,” the inventor concluded.
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