The prototype is the first camera that did not use photographic film, it was invented in a laboratory at the Kodak plant in Rochester in December 1975.
It consisted of a Super8 camera optics, a cassette recorder, 16 batteries, a new CCD and various electronic components to connect it all.
The camera captured an image with a resolution of 100 lines through its sensor and sending the information of a tape 23 second.
To show the photographs and made the team a tape player connected it to a TV that displayed the interpolated image.
Kodak filed a patent and showed his invention at meetings with employees but was met with skepticism, people wondering what was the interest to see pictures on TV and what might look like a photo album “digital”.
Outside the patent the device was not revealed to the public before 2001.
In a technical engineers who invented notaient :
The camera described in this report represents the first attempt to show a photographic system that could, with improvements in technology, substantially change the way pictures are taken in the future.
We can not say they were wrong.
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