World’s first portable digital camera weighed almost 9 lbs, recorded images with a cassette

March 12th, 2012

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A team of Kodak employees made the first digital camera using parts from several devices

These days, companies release more and more camera models to answer to the needs of both hobby and professional photographers. But did you know that the very first portable digital camera didn’t look quite like your shiny DSLR or point and shoot?

Kodak created the first portable digital camera in 1975 using parts from various devices, as you can see in the image above. It was a mammoth camera that weighed roughly 9 lbs., and stood almost 9″ tall. It used a lens from a Super 8 camera, and a cassette tape that recorded black and white images that were merely 0.01 megapixel in quality.

So how did the Kodak employees view digital images in 1975? After waiting a lengthy 23 seconds for the camera to save an image to the cassette tape, they had to remove the tape from the camera and play its contents using another custom-made machine connected to a TV set. You can see the setup in the image below.

When the camera’s creators demonstrated the device to several audiences within Kodak in 1976, one of the questions people asked was: “Why would anyone ever want to view his or her pictures on a TV?” Clearly, the Kodak engineers had an idea way advanced for that era.

[Image credit: Kodak]

[via NewScientist]

This article was written by Mariella Moon and originally appeared on Tecca