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Photography: Developing Disruption

Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson

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Using a Digital Camera

Steve sasson's camera weighed eight pounds, took 23 seconds to capture a photo and could only capture images at a resolution of a tenth of a mega pixle. For point of reference, the tiny camera on your brand new sel phone can take photos with a resolution of about a hundred and 20 times better than that. Images were recorded on casete tapes, which were then displayed in black and white on a television screen. Sasson thought that he had stumbled onto something great.

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