a Brief History of Digital Photography

1972 - The first patent is filed for a filmless electronic camera by Texas Instruments.

1975 - The first recorded attempt at building a digital camera. The camera weighed 8 pounds, recorded black and white images to a cassette tape, had a resolution of 0.01 megapixel, and took 23 seconds to capture its first image.

1986 - Kodak scientists invent the world’s first megapixel sensor, capable of recording 1.4 million pixels that could produce a 5×7-inch digital photo-quality print.

1988 - Canon XapShot- (Ted sees electronic, albeit analog, camera for first time, lusts.)

1990 - Kodak shows a hacked Nikon body with a Kodak sensor at Photokina called the DCS. It was 1 MP and cost $25,000. It shipped in 1991. The first entirely digital camera is available to consumers. The Logitech FotoMan records in black and white and at less than one-tenth of a megapixel.

1991 - Kodak presents the DSC 100, which is considered the first useful digital camera for general sale. The 1.3-megapixel camera retails at $20,000.

1992 - Kodak introduces the photo CD. Leaf introduces DCB camera back.

1994 - The CompactFlash memory card is introduced

1994 - The Apple QuickTake 100 is the first consumer-oriented color digital camera. It retails at about $1,000.

1995 - The first consumer camera with a liquid crystal display on the back was the Casio QV-10.

1996 - Thee first camera to use CompactFlash was the Kodak DC-25.

1999 - The Nikon D1, the first digital SLR designed and manufactured by a single camera company is released. It is 2.7 megapixels.
(Ted takes last known photograph on film.)

2003 - Canon’s 6.3 megapixel EOS Digital Rebel is available for less than $1,000. It is the first digital SLR to make a major impact on the consumer market.

2003 - Digital camera sales exceed film camera sales for the first time.

2004 - Kodak ceases production of film cameras.

(creds to PlanetHunt.com- That's What She Said)