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 ...

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 first digital camera it is not. There were others before and, of course, there have been many since. But it was the first practical digital camera for under $1,000. As a result history has ...

Before 1980, photography was much more complicated than it is today. Cameras needed film, with each roll containing up to 36 exposures. Then, the film had to be developed and the prints printed. What ...

The reporter and photographer David Gonzalez once had to ship his film rolls to The Times’s Manhattan office. But in 1999, he went digital. By David W. Dunlap In the In Times Past column, David W.