Steven Sasson, the man who revolutionized photography by inventing the world’s first digital still camera,has been voted into the Consumer Electronics (CE) Hall of Fame.
Sasson, is an electrical engineer, who created the digital camera in 1975.
The Consumer Electronics’ Hall of Fame will honor Sasson along with 10 other industry leaders at an annual awards dinner.
The event, will simultaneously take place with the CEA’s Industry Forum on October 14-17, 2007 in San Diego, California.
Sasson said:
“The thing to remember about the digital revolution in photography is that it changed how we take pictures. The most important aspect of photography, why we take pictures, remains the same. Our memories are our most important possessions, and the job of this or any other technology is to enable us to make these vital parts of our lives easier and even more valuable.”
Thirty three years ago while employed at the Eastman Kodak Company he was asked to experiment with a charge-coupled device also known as CCD (it is an image sensor, consisting of an integrated circuit with a group of linked capacitors sensitive to light).
The challenge led to the creation of an image-capture device, and eventually to the birth of the first digital camera.
Sasson along with few technicians spent a year on the project .
And in December 1975, the first pictures were taken, which were called ‘film-less photography’.