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"Jörg and Céline - The First Digital Photograph 1990" by Lucien Samaha

While working in Marketing at Eastman Kodak in 1990, Lucien Samaha received a call from the engineer who was putting the final touches on the prototype of what would become the first real digital camera, asking him if he would be willing to test the new invention in the field, i.e. outside the engineers’ office.

That same evening, Samaha enthusiastically picked up the camera from the factory and took it home, unveiled it to his friends who had come over for dinner, one of whom himself a photographer, and without making much ado of this extraordinary moment, took the very first digital photograph of humans, in this case, a young couple looking at themselves in a small monitor in a “Digital Storage Unit” tethered to a digital camera, which a millisecond before captured the same image that is being offered as an NFT.