The digital camera revolutionized the photography industry, but photography’s transformation from film to digital started with a 24-year-old engineer just two years out of college. Steve Sasson was just 24 in 1975 when he built a device that mixed several pieces of technology into an eight-pound device: The first-ever digital camera.
Sasson was an engineer working at Eastman Kodak’s Applied Research Department just two years out of college when he was given a task: see if there was anything Kodak could use the new charge-coupled device, or CCD for.
