Digital photography in 1991 (photos)

Summary: ZDNet's 20th anniversary: A walk through digital cameras over the years, all the way back to 1991.

By Janice Chen | April 17, 2011 -- 20:30 GMT (13:30 PDT)

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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.

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RE: Digital photography in 1991 (photos)

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. :-) I also had the floppy adapter for smart media memory cards.

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16 December, 2011 11:05

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