Perhaps of interest.

“Steven Sasson invented the world’s first digital camera while working at Eastman Kodak in 1975. It weighed around 8 pounds (3.6kg) and shot a mere 0.01MP. It’s crazy to think how far we’ve come since those early days. We’ve gone from 30 images on a delicate cassette to thousands on something as small as a fingernail.
The Kodak digital camera prototype was made from parts of Kodak’s Super 8 movie cameras. It also included about half a dozen custom circuit boards, and used a CCD sensor which shot black & white. Images went from the sensor to the camera’s temporary memory in about 50ms. From there, it took a further 23 seconds to record one image to a digital cassette tape.
The tapes held 30 images. This number was intentionally chosen by Steven so as to be between 24 and 36 exposure films. Tapes could have stored hundreds or even thousands of images, but people simply weren’t used to that many. It seems strange, now, when a wedding photographer can easily come home with a couple of thousand shots”

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Spiny Norman said:

Perhaps of interest.

“Steven Sasson invented the world’s first digital camera while working at Eastman Kodak in 1975. It weighed around 8 pounds (3.6kg) and shot a mere 0.01MP. It’s crazy to think how far we’ve come since those early days. We’ve gone from 30 images on a delicate cassette to thousands on something as small as a fingernail.
The Kodak digital camera prototype was made from parts of Kodak’s Super 8 movie cameras. It also included about half a dozen custom circuit boards, and used a CCD sensor which shot black & white. Images went from the sensor to the camera’s temporary memory in about 50ms. From there, it took a further 23 seconds to record one image to a digital cassette tape.
The tapes held 30 images. This number was intentionally chosen by Steven so as to be between 24 and 36 exposure films. Tapes could have stored hundreds or even thousands of images, but people simply weren’t used to that many. It seems strange, now, when a wedding photographer can easily come home with a couple of thousand shots”

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Interesting how digital was born from analogue.

I was aware that it was invented at Kodak but didn’t know the details.

Kodak kind of shot themselves in the foot, eh?

Spiny Norman said:

Perhaps of interest.

“Steven Sasson invented the world’s first digital camera while working at Eastman Kodak in 1975. It weighed around 8 pounds (3.6kg) and shot a mere 0.01MP. It’s crazy to think how far we’ve come since those early days. We’ve gone from 30 images on a delicate cassette to thousands on something as small as a fingernail.
The Kodak digital camera prototype was made from parts of Kodak’s Super 8 movie cameras. It also included about half a dozen custom circuit boards, and used a CCD sensor which shot black & white. Images went from the sensor to the camera’s temporary memory in about 50ms. From there, it took a further 23 seconds to record one image to a digital cassette tape.
The tapes held 30 images. This number was intentionally chosen by Steven so as to be between 24 and 36 exposure films. Tapes could have stored hundreds or even thousands of images, but people simply weren’t used to that many. It seems strange, now, when a wedding photographer can easily come home with a couple of thousand shots”

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Nice

Michael V said:

Kodak kind of shot themselves in the foot, eh?

They could have positioned themselves to get a better picture of the future.

Bet failed to take the shot.

Spiny Norman said:

Perhaps of interest.

“Steven Sasson invented the world’s first digital camera while working at Eastman Kodak in 1975. It weighed around 8 pounds (3.6kg) and shot a mere 0.01MP. It’s crazy to think how far we’ve come since those early days. We’ve gone from 30 images on a delicate cassette to thousands on something as small as a fingernail.
The Kodak digital camera prototype was made from parts of Kodak’s Super 8 movie cameras. It also included about half a dozen custom circuit boards, and used a CCD sensor which shot black & white. Images went from the sensor to the camera’s temporary memory in about 50ms. From there, it took a further 23 seconds to record one image to a digital cassette tape.
The tapes held 30 images. This number was intentionally chosen by Steven so as to be between 24 and 36 exposure films. Tapes could have stored hundreds or even thousands of images, but people simply weren’t used to that many. It seems strange, now, when a wedding photographer can easily come home with a couple of thousand shots”

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The first digital cameras for mass market use only held about 30 images.
CCD is still the best format for astrophotography, slow but accurate.
Early satellite astrophotography was limited to about 0.01 MP wasn’t it?
This CGA image is 0.008 MP. It’s not too bad, and with intelligent smoothing (eg. Lanczos) it could be quite good.