When was the first digital camera made?
The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony’s Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).
"In 1991, Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS), aimed at photojournalists. It was a Nikon F-3 camera equipped by Kodak with a 1.3 megapixel sensor. "http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldigitalcamera.htm
The history of the digital camera… The first digital camera came 20 years after the first attempt at digital video. In the late 1950s, TV shows were recorded with new video tape recorders, invented at a Crosby-funded lab. The VTR converted images to electric impulses and recorded them onto magnetic tape (the professional precursor to the home videocassette recorder). The Jet Propulsion Laboratory stepped closer to the first digital camera in the 1960s with space-bound sensors that captured and sent crude photos and navigation information to astronauts and mission control. A Texas Instruments engineer applied for a digital camera patent in 1972 and filed some basic plans, but no physical model has been found. Three years later, Sasson showed the Kodak team a film-free camera that took 23 seconds to record and save black-and-white still images to a cassette tape, which was then inserted in a VCR-size machine for display on a TV screen. At a hefty eight pounds and a 0.01 megapixel resol
