Cell phone cameras now provide a more convenient ... "has just gone back to baseline." The first camera was invented in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The invention of the camera ...

The 1975 prototype of the first digital camera, invented by Steven Sasson for Kodak(Courtesy Steven Sasson) If you told a teenager today that snapping a photograph used to require buying film in ...

Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented the first portable, digital camera in 1975. Kodak received a patent for the device in 1978, but did not put it into production. What's False While Kodak did ...

Kodak invented the world's first portable, digital camera in the 1970s, but didn't release the technology for public sale until years later to avoid hits to the company's photographic-film business.

Kodak hid the creation of the digital camera. Here's what has come to light about how the company's higher-ups treated the ...

Here's what has come to light about how the company's higher-ups treated the invention and why it didn't initially push forward with it publicly. The story of the digital camera goes back to 1975 ...