Pop quiz question: Topic: history of digital photography. When was the first digital camera used?
I bet you answered “in the 1990s.” Actually the first digital camera was used in 1963. A Stanford University student invented a videodisk camera that took a photograph and stored that image on a disk. This image only lasted for a few minutes but it was the first digital image.
The real core of digital photography did not appear until 1969.On October 17, 1969, the charge-coupled device (CCD) was invented at Bell Labs by George Smith and Willard Boyle. Oddly enough they were not actually working on digital imaging but they were trying to come up with an innovative semiconductor memory for computers. When they were not working on the memory, they were trying to develop a solid-state camera that could be used in video phones. They succeeded in building the CCD in the first solid-state video camera in 1970.
These attempts were all preliminary to the digital camera as we know it today. The first prototype digital camera was produced in 1981 by Sony Corporation. The Mavica electronic still camera was
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