Steven Sasson, Inventor of the Digital Camera
[cross-posted from my too-infrequently-updated photography blog]
It’s been way too long since I’ve posted one of these. This is my portrait of Steven Sasson, inventor of the digital camera. He was the 32nd inventor in my project. I shot him in October at Kodak’s headquarters in Rochester, just a couple weeks before President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Technology.
When he initially mentioned that the first digital camera held 30 pictures, I assumed that was due to the storage capacity of the digital tape. It was really interesting to hear that he picked 30 as an artificial limitation, and his explanation why.
Here are a couple photos from our shoot, as seen in the video:
Comments
Good work David! This is my favourite inventor portrait so far.
Posted by: Justin | May 17, 2011 8:04 PM