The dawn of digital photography can be traced back to the Space Race. The first digital camera was invented by Steven Sasson in 1975. According to Sasson, the camera was made out of different parts collected around the Kodak factory. The first camera took 23 seconds to "record" a picture, the pictures it takes are in black and white which are stored in a cassette tape. The creation of the digital camera started the modern digital photography that we all know today.