"Jörg and Céline - The First Digital Photograph 1990" by Lucien Samaha

@luciensamaha_onfilm "Jörg and Céline - The First Digital Photograph 1990" by Lucien Samaha While working in Marketing at Eastman Kodak in 1990, Lucien Samaha received a call from the engineer who was putting the final touches on the prototype of what would become the first real digital camera, asking him if he would be willing to test the new invention in the field, i.e. outside the engineers’ office. That same evening, Samaha enthusiastically picked up the camera from the factory and took it home, unveiled it to his friends who had come over for dinner, one of whom himself a photographer, and without making much ado of this extraordinary moment, took the very first digital photograph of...View all