先有的數碼相機還是先有的數碼照片？

先有數碼照片。

因為在數碼相機之前，我們還有傳真機。第一部真正實用的傳真機誕生於1881年（參考

Fax

）：

In 1881， English inventor Shelford Bidwell constructed the

scanning phototelegraph

that was the first telefax machine to scan any two-dimensional original， not requiring manual plotting or drawing。

如果你覺得早年的傳真機都是用模擬訊號做傳輸的，所以被傳輸的照片不能算數碼照片，那麼請看第一部數碼傳真機的誕生年份（參考

Fax

）：

The first digital fax machine was theDacom Rapidfax first sold in late 1960s， which incorporated digital data compression technology developed by Lockheed for transmission of images from satellites。

而第一部數碼相機則是在1975年發明的（參考

Digital camera

）：

Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first electronic camera using a charge-coupled device image sensor in 1975。