Digital photography in 1991 (photos)

by Janice Chen  |  April 17, 2011 8:30pm PDT  |  Image 1 of 11

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First digital camera invented by Kodak's Steven Sasson in 1975

Though the CCD sensor was invented in 1969 and the first digital camera was created by Kodak's Steven Sasson in 1975, in 1991, digital cameras were a long way off from being the ubiquitous gadgets toted around today. Shooting with film was still far from extinction.

See the accompanying story: ZDNet's 20th anniversary: Digital photography in 1991


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My first digital was the Fuji MX-100 from 1997. I still have it and it still works although I now have to find a USB cable for it. happy I also had the floppy adapter for smart media memory cards.

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