The first digital camera was made in this year by Kodak.
- 1970
- 1975
- 1980
- 1985
1975. The prototype, made by Steve Sasson, was 8 lbs and the size of a toaster. It took 23 seconds to photograph a blurry image of a lab assistant, which he was less than pleased with. The first commercially available digital camera—the Dycam Model 1—appeared 15 years later.
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