As the legend goes, a young engineer at Kodak invented the world's first digital camera in the 1970s, but executives told him ...
The camera was named the ‘Instamatic’ by Kodak – derived from instant (as in the film loading) and automatic – but it eventually became the generic term for any camera in the 126 format.
and soon became one of the world’s largest film and camera manufacturers. The Brownie, the Instamatic, those “Kodak moments” had the company riding high for nearly 100 years, until it ...