What year was the first digital photograph taken?

5 years 10 months ago #588179 by Ruby Grace
Don't look up the answer.   Guess first.  I was surprised.  

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5 years 10 months ago #588181 by effron
1978

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5 years 10 months ago #588199 by fmw
1975.  The first digital camera was hand made by a Kodak engineer using the first sensor which was released that year.  It was couple of decades later, however, that digital photography became popular because at that time digital competed effectively with film in terms of image quality.  Today it outperforms film easily.


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5 years 10 months ago - 5 years 10 months ago #588205 by effron
Try again....(I looked it up) I was more wrong than you though.

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5 years 10 months ago #588211 by garyrhook
Look it up where? Everything I'm finding also says 1975. Either JPL or Kodak. At least, for what we consider a modern digital camera.

You cite what reference?


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5 years 10 months ago #588214 by Oscar Cohen


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5 years 10 months ago #588217 by garyrhook

Oscar Cohen wrote: Nope, 1957

www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2007/05/fi...digital-image-marked


I'll take "No" for $100, Alex.

That's about a digital image and a scanner. The question was about a digital photograph.

Not the same thing in my book.


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5 years 10 months ago #588219 by H Rocky
Yep, no cigar on that one.  That's a scanned photo.  Title says 'digital photograph take'.  


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5 years 10 months ago - 5 years 10 months ago #588235 by effron
So a photograph can't be scanned? We're now going to debate the meaning of the word "take" then....

I'll also surmise I was the only one that guessed prior to posting.

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5 years 10 months ago #588264 by garyrhook
Fair enough. The original question is imprecise. I simply interpreted it to mean that the method of (original) creation was via the use of a digital camera. In that context, the creation of a digital image is derivative.

But a case could be made otherwise.


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5 years 10 months ago #588268 by effron
Yeah, the question was a bit vague at best. Also, where is the OP with their version of the correct answer?

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5 years 10 months ago #588283 by garyrhook
I don't think Ruby gets onto the forum every day.


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5 years 10 months ago #588309 by Ruby Grace
You know what, I screwed up my own question.  Technically, Oscar found what I was talking about.  1957.  However after reading the answers here, I realized my wording was off, and technically incorrect.  

Whoops!  Well everyone now knows the first scanned digital image date is!  

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5 years 10 months ago #588355 by Karen Comella
OMG, I would have been way off and had guessed early 90's 


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5 years 10 months ago #588364 by effron

Ruby Grace wrote: You know what, I screwed up my own question.   


Didn't matter, you also requested nobody search it and the first thing everyone did was google the question. I thought it was interesting as I guessed the seventies and had no idea a digital scanned photo took place in '57. 

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