This led him, through a series of steps, not only to invent the first digital camera but also to invent a device to display it on. Sasson showed these devices to his bosses at Kodak in 1975.

Once thought a casualty of the ever-increasing picture quality of phone cameras, standalone digital cameras are making a comeback.

There are three advantages of digital cameras over their earlier analog counterparts. First, the image is viewable immediately and can be erased. Second, any single picture can be printed without ...