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Fri 11 Nov 2009Portrait of inventor who saw the big picture
As a young Kodak employee, Steve Sasson invented the digital camera. Kodak’s failure to commercialise it makes it a bittersweet success, writes RICHARD GILLIS
‘THEY GIVE us those nice bright colours. They give us the greens of summers. Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day . . . So Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away,” sang Paul Simon in 1973.
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