©Kodak

Coming from the folks whose main busi­ness was sell­ing film:

On the side of our portable con­trap­tion, we shoe­horned in a portable dig­i­tal cas­sette instru­men­ta­tion recorder. Add to that 16 nickel cad­mium bat­ter­ies, a highly tem­pera­men­tal new type of CCD imag­ing area array, an a/d con­verter imple­men­ta­tion stolen from a dig­i­tal volt­meter appli­ca­tion, sev­eral dozen dig­i­tal and ana­log cir­cuits all wired together on approx­i­mately half a dozen cir­cuit boards, and you have our inter­pre­ta­tion of what a portable all elec­tronic still cam­era might look like.

I have used that very photo in my basic dig­i­tal work­shop course mate­r­ial, and I have quoted Steven Sasson for count­less of times for open­ing up a whole new world of dig­i­tal imagery.

New York based pho­tog­ra­pher David Friedman had made a nice video pro­file on Steven Sasson, who fondly revealed that he chose 30 as “the con­ve­nient num­ber between 24 and 36″ which at the time was the num­ber of shots can be cap­tured on a roll of film.

PS. I have always pre­ferred 24 @ ISO 400.