First digital camera

As always on this list, ANY use of the word "first" is subject to challenge. On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: It may very well have been the first digital camera from Kodak, or the first to meet certain completely arbitrary further restrictions (of weight, size, power source, image quality, etc.). But it (1975) was most certainly NOT the first digital camera. In 1970, I saw a Rube-Goldberg homemade system that used an almost unmodified Sony video-camera feeding its signal to a digitizer in the case of a gutted CV series recorder. Is that invalidated because it was two pieces connected with a cable? When I saw it, the tinkerers were putting together an interface to a crude fax machine. (Fax machines have been around a LONG time.) It is also amusing to note that in spite of this very nice "proof of concept", a decade later Kodak was betting the company on chemical capture with digital storage ("photo-CD" and later "picture-CD") Now, Kodak is phasing out a lot of their chemical products :-( -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com