In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera.

Capturing the world through your own lens is exciting, and most of us probably didn't realize how the small step of holding a film camera, a DSLR or a compact camera for the first time would turn into ...

In the grand scheme of things, 80-years doesn’t seem like such a long time. Back in 1934, Canon built the prototype of their first camera, the Kwanon. Since then, quite a bit has changed. Canon is ...

Take a lens from a Super 8 camera, a whole stack of ni-cad batteries, a digital to analog converter from a voltmeter, a highly experimental CCD and what have you got? Kodak's first digital still ...

Technology vanishes. It either succeeds and becomes ubiquitous or fails. For example, there was a time when networking and multimedia were computer buzzwords. Now they are just how computers work. On ...

For years, claims have spread on social media platforms that a photo genuinely showed the world’s first camera. When we searched “Chicago and Alton railroad camera,” we found the photo was real. It ...

Unless you grew up in a time after cameraphones arrived, there’s a very good chance your first digital camera was a weird Game Boy accessory. The Game Boy Camera was definitely my first digital ...

The 1972 Olympus OM-1 remains the ultimate proof that great things really do come in small packages!

Classic Cameras #14 – the Canon Pellix and the story of the pellicle mirror ...