At Kodak, in December 1975, Sasson assembled the first digital camera and persuaded a lab assistant to pose for them. The black-and-white image, captured at a resolution of .01 megapixels (10,000 pixels), took 23 seconds to record onto a digital cassette tape and another 23 seconds to read off a playback unit onto a television. Then it popped up on the screen.
Upon seeing the image, the assistant remarked, "You guys need a lot of work."