Kodak built the first digital camera in 1975

How I got here

Started with

Did Kodak really invent the digital camera and ignore it?

Ended at

Fujifilm

The Trail

1. “kodak invented digital camera” (google.com)
2. Steven Sasson (en.wikipedia.org)

   toaster-sized, 0.01 megapixels, 23 seconds to save one black-and-white photo to a cassette tape

3. Digital camera (en.wikipedia.org)
4. Charge-coupled device (en.wikipedia.org)
5. Kodak (en.wikipedia.org)
6. Fujifilm (en.wikipedia.org)

   the other big film company. it pivoted to medical imaging and, somehow, cosmetics

What I came away with

Kodak didn't ignore digital entirely, it held patents and made early professional digital cameras, but its money came from film, chemicals and paper, and it filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Fujifilm faced the same collapse and moved its chemistry know-how into other businesses.

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