He must be really excited seeing the H4D 200ms from hasselblad being the best Dslr and still uses CCD sensor. Thank you Steve Sasson my hobby,job,and partly life is build on your invention.
These days, we almost take this kind of technology for granted. But the amount of development that went into such things was huge and diverse. The development of this stuff involved many disciplines. So many pioneers behind every component. Nowadays, digital cameras are so sophisticated that they provide automatic everything, as well as doubling as tapeless HD camcorders. But I personally recall the days when data cassettes were a common storage medium, rather than using 8-inch floppies.
Can't believe they had this whole 8 minute talk and they never bothered to throw in the actual Joy Marshall picture. Surely that's got to be a historic photo.
Amazing. It'd be interesting to see him explain the internals in general and how some of the things worked and what he did that didn't work. And how some of those same concepts are or are not used in todays cameras.
@TheRainbow101 You're quite welcome. I'm proud to say I know Steve Sasson, and he's really the nicest person you'd even want to meet, very down to earth for someone who made such a huge contribution to photography.
I know. I used to work at Motorola in 1981 and a triple line input 56kbp data modem cost $35,000. My point was that Kodak made most of their profits from licensing. By owning the patents on the technology and licensing them, they could have offset the digital camera revolutions impact. They didn't have to manufacture the cameras, just own the technology. The management made a bad choice and blew it by not taking the credit for the R&D.
Hi Stephen ... it sounds good in retrospect, but other technology had not caught up. For example, how would you store the digital images? Floppy drives held $90k and could run you $500. Who wanted a low res picture, or the need to look at their TV. No small LCD screens. No way to print pictures on glossy paper. It was like inventing something totally useless. The concept was wood, the supporting technology had to catch up.
The biggest mistake Kodak made was keeping the digital camera out of the market place. They should have patent the hell out of every aspect of it. Then forged on to digital motion picture film scanners and educate the masses that not all new developments are advancements. The only reason digital film technology has been embraced so aggressively is because of low cost and convenience, not better quality still or motion picture images. The EPA was also up Kodak's asses about pollution.
@dinnerandashow I work primarily with a Canon Digital Rebel DSLR. However, my pocket camera is a Kodak Easyshare C533 which i purchased at a pawn shop, It has always given me satisfactory results.
Kodak also invented the Lunar symmetrical calendar that is vastly superior to the Gregorian calendar. It consists of 13 months, each consisting of 28 days. Each week still has 7 days. 13x28 comes to 364 days. The New Year's Day is a special day that is not part of any month and the hours are 75 minutes long to get rid of the one-forth of a day. Any tiny adjustments would be made to the special New Year's Day to adjust for leap seconds, leap minutes and the such. Every week and month started with Sunday and every week and month would end in Saturday. It is a perfect symmetrical calendar but people are too stuck on the antiquated Gregorian calendar to switch to a vastly superior symmetrical calendar.
You have got to love these people who come on here and say that Kodak has the worst digital cameras on the market. I was an early adopter of consumer grade digital cameras. I have had several Kodak digital cameras along with several other brands. All of the Kodak digital cameras I have owned have been very good values. Most consumer brands are not defined by the high end, but by how much functionality their affordable cameras offer. In my experience Kodak has been a leader in that arena.
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Has this Sasson's digital camera inspire any other digital cameras? Because if not, I'm not sure we can't call the man "the" digital camera inventor. We can call him "a" digital camera inventor.
