What's True. Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented the first portable, digital camera in 1975. Kodak received a patent for the device in 1978, but did not put it into production.

What's True. Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented the first portable, digital camera in 1975. Kodak received a patent for the device in 1978, but did not put it into production.

Steven Sasson holds the prototype digital camera he built in 1975 at the Eastman Kodak Co. headquarters in Rochester, N.Y. It recorded a black-and-white image on a digital cassette tape.

Kodak owns patents that cover a number of basic functions in many smartphone cameras. The company picked up $27 million in patent-licensing fees in the first half of 2011.

Kodak will phase out digital cameras in the first half of 2012, ... Once the digital camera phase-out is complete, Kodak expects an annual operating savings of more than $100 million.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – After a summer-long delay, Eastman Kodak Co. has begun shipping the first digital camera with Wi-Fi wireless technology to e-mail photos directly to friends and family without ...

Kodak, which invented digital camera technology in the 1970s, said in February that as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection it was getting out of digital consumer photography.

The story of the digital camera goes back to 1975, when Kodak engineer Steven Sasson revealed the first working portable model. The cobbled-together device — comprised of circuits, Super 8 ...