Capturing the Pixel: CCDs and the Digital Camera Revolution

From silver iodide to silicon: Willard Boyle's CCD, Steve Sasson's 1975 Kodak prototype, Bayer filters, the CMOS takeover, and the death of film.

Playlist by @pixel_history

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. How does a camera work? — Branch Education
  2. I tried to make a camera sensor — Breaking Taps
  3. Steve Sasson, Digital Camera Inventor — Kodak
  4. Kodak Built the First Digital Camera… And did Nothing with It — Brain Blaze
  5. CCD: The heart of a digital camera (how a charge-coupled device works) — engineerguy
  6. The Chips That See: Rise of the Image Sensor — Asianometry
  7. Capturing Digital Images (The Bayer Filter) - Computerphile — Computerphile
  8. Image Sensors as Fast As Possible — Techquickie
  9. CCD vs CMOS Sensors — Udacity
  10. Evolution & Decline of Digital Cameras 1971 - 2020 — Captain Gizmo