WEBSTER, N.Y. — Think about how many times a day you take a picture. The man who helped make that happen spoke to students in Webster on Thursday. Steve Sasson invented the digital camera at Eastman ...

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.

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 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Steven Sasson, a retired research scientist for Eastman Kodak Company, will receive an “Innovation Award” from The Economist magazine in ceremonies in London on ...

Some cameras used to be the size of a whole room, requiring multiple people to operate. The first camera was invented in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. In 1827, his prototype was used to ...

Eminent American inventor Thomas Edison said it best: ‘To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.’ Edison died in 1931 and the first digital camera didn’t appear for another 44 years.

The last few years have been particularly tough for Kodak, the almost-120-year-old photographic company based in Rochester, New York. As we ticked over into the 21st century, Kodak employed some ...