The Kodak DCS at 35: How the First Commercial DSLR Was Born

Kodak shipped the first commercial digital SLR 35 years ago this month, and the spec sheet reads like a fever dream: 1.3 megapixels, a cable tethered to a 20MB hard drive you wore on your shoulder, running off a lead-acid camcorder battery. Built on a Nikon F3 body. The same Bayer sensor pattern from that camera is still in your mirrorless body right now. Worth a read not for nostalgia, but for perspective the next time someone complains about buffer limits.