Invention of digital camera

You may still be asking yourself who invented the digital camera? Digital camera technology is directly related to and evolved from the same technology that recorded television images. In 1951 the first video tape recorder (VTR) captured live images from television cameras. Both television / video cameras and digital use a CCD ( charged couples device) to sense light color and intensity. Bing Crosby laboratories created the first early VTR and by 1956. Digital imaging also had another government use at the time that being spy satellites. Images were recorder onto mini disc and then put into a video reader that was connected to a television monitor or color print. The world's first digital camera by Kodak in 1957. It took 0.01 megapixel images shot only in black and white that were saved to a cassete tape. And it took 23 seconds to capture single image. In 1987 Kodak released seven products for recording storing and printing electronic still video camera. In 1991 Kodak released the first professional digital camera system. The marketing worked and today digital camera are everywhere. But who needs digital camera nowadays when you have a smart phone. How far we have come.