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Title: Kodak's first digital camera
Post by: Zipperhead on 17 October, 2008, 10:45:05 am

In December of 1975, after a year of piecing together a bunch of new technology in a back lab at the Elmgrove Plant in Rochester, we were ready to try it.  "It" being a rather odd-looking collection of digital circuits that we desperately tried to convince ourselves was a portable camera.... (http://stevesasson.pluggedin.kodak.com/default.asp?item=687843)

Title: Re: Kodak's first digital camera
Post by: nicknack on 17 October, 2008, 11:02:54 am

Coo. Interesting. Ta

Dec 1975 I'd just started my Photographic Science degree. Lots of wet chemistry involved.

Title: Re: Kodak's first digital camera
Post by: iakobski on 17 October, 2008, 11:19:47 am

Quote from: nicknack on 17 October, 2008, 11:02:54 am

Coo. Interesting. Ta

Dec 1975 I'd just started my Photographic Science degree. Lots of wet chemistry involved.

PCL! I was there in the early 80s and still 99% wet processing. We did manage to build an excellent flatbed scanner involving a microdensitometer, some stepper motors and a BBC micro, launching the department into the digital age. Shortly after they bought a 640X480 pixel monochrome CCD camera and changed the course name to Photographic and Electronic Imaging Sciences.

Title: Re: Kodak's first digital camera
Post by: Regulator on 20 October, 2008, 04:54:49 pm

Quote from: nicknack on 17 October, 2008, 11:02:54 am

Coo. Interesting. Ta

Dec 1975 I'd just started my Photographic Science degree. Lots of 'wet chemistry' involved.

Is that a euphimism for sex I haven't heard before?  ;)