![]() ![]() Its 12 million pixels were larger than average, and their superior light collecting power enabled the D3 to produce image quality in low light that had never been achievable before. Nikon’s first full frame DSLR introduced the concept of less is more in the pixel department. The 7.5MP E-330 was a flop in most other respects and it would be a while before the benefits of Live View on a DSLR would be widely recognized. The 12.8MP 5D was a huge success, though its sales were nothing compared with those of its successor.Īlthough common on compacts the E330 was the first DSLR to feature full colour Live View, enabling images to be previewed on the LCD screen prior to shooting. The first consumer DSLR to feature a full frame sensor, The 5D was much smaller and cheaper than any previous full frame camera and for the first time opened up the format to the enthusiast as well as the pro. Even in its day it wasn’t revolutionary in its specification, but it was in its social impact, bringing digital SLR photography to the masses for the first time. ![]() The first digital SLR to cost under £1000 came in rather bizarre silver colour and boasted a 6.3MP sensor, and the now ubiquitous 18-55mm kit lens. It featured a 2.7MP sensor and 4.5fps shooting – a respectable speed even today. The first fully integrated digital SLR designed from the ground up, rather than a digital bolt-on to a 35mm film SLR. It featured an innovative swivel lens assembly that became popular for a while. The world’s first digital camera to incorporate an LCD screen on the back (1.8″) for image preview and playback the QV-10 could store 96 320×240 pixel images. It produced 640×480 pixel images, this time in colour! Widely regarded as the first proper, mainstream consumer digital camera, the Kodak-made Quicktake 100 was also the first to use USB to connect to a computer. ![]() The Kodak Professional Digital Camera System (DCS) was a modified Nikon F3 tethered to a separate 200MB hard disc drive that was carried over the shoulder, which was capable of storing up to 156 uncompressed 1.3MP images. The world’s first digital SLR was nothing like the DSLRs of today. The Fotoman, also sold as the Dycam Model 1, only produced 320x240pixel black and white images, had just 1MB of internal memory and a fixed focus lens. The first commercially available digital camera in the UK was not from one of the names you’d expect. It recorded 570x 490 pixel images on to Video Floppy diskettes, and survived for several generations, the later models using true digital capture, and recording onto floppy discs. Okay, the Mavica is not a digital camera, it produced analogue still video images, but nevertheless it was the first commercially available camera to produce still images by electronic means rather than film, and the digital cameras we use today are direct descendents from this process. Please feel free to post your own suggestions, and memories of some of these cameras, in the comments. It’s not a comprehensive list – there are lots of firsts we haven’t covered, but it provides a general overview of influential cameras that were commercially available to buy, and we hope to add more over time. Since then things have moved on quite a bit, so we’ve decided to commemorate our anniversary by taking a look at some of the landmark models in the history of digital cameras. The world’s oldest digital photography magazine was first published in March 1997 (right) and featured among other delights Fujifilm’s first consumer digital camera, the DS-7. What Digital Camera is 200 issues old this month. ![]()
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