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.

Under Kaufmann, now the company’s chair, Leica invested in new digital models and top-of-range optics including modern ...

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 ...