The Kodak PixPro FZ45 is nearer the 3-digit mark, with a price tag of around $90/£94. That’s still remarkably cheap for a camera with such a big name behind it, and hopefully a name that can ...

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 ...

Aspects of this argument are true. Though larger-scale applications involving the digitization of images already existed, Kodak engineer Steve Sasson created the first portable digital camera in 1975.

Kodak invented the world's first portable, digital camera in the 1970s, but didn't release the technology for public sale until years later to avoid hits to the company's photographic-film business.