
In 1995, Minolta
introduced the first digital SLR
camera. It had small size and was highly portable. Fuji DS-1P of 1988 was the first portable
digital camera that could record an image in computerized file. It had a 2 MB SRAM memory card in it, which used a battery to
store the data in memory. However, this camera was not launched in a market for
public. The Mega Vision Tessera launched in 1987 is said to be the first
digital camera commercially launched in the market, though there is not any
extensive documentation found that could address the sales in the market. The
first portable digital camera actually sold commercially in the market was
DS-X. Fuji of Japan launched this in Dec 1989. In Nov 1990, Dycam
Model 1 became the first potable digital camera to be commercially available in
the US
market. It got failure in the market as
it used to produce black and white image, had a low resolution, and cost
approximately $1000 during that time. In 1992, it got modest success when it
was re-sold in the market Logitech
Fotoman. It had a CCD image sensor
in it. It was able to store image digitally and could be directly connected to
a computer for image downloading.
In 1991, Kodak launched
the Kodak DCS in the market. It
used a 1.3 Megapixels camera sensor. It had a bulk external digital storage
system. During that time it cost high price in the market i.e., $13000. Kodak
also launched Kodak DCS-200 in the market and dubbed
Kodak DCS as Kodak DCS-100. In
1998, the formation of JPEG and MPEG standards took the digital photography
arena one-step more ahead. These digital
formats allowed the image and video files to compress for storage. In 1995, Hiroyuki Suetaka
with a team developed Casio QV-10 camera with liquid crystal display on its
back for the first time as a consumer camera. The Kodak DC-25 launched in 1996
was the first digital camera to use Compact Flash. The Ricoh RDC-1 launched in 1995 was the first digital camera
that had the ability to record a video clip. In 1999, Nikon D1 was introduced
in the market. It was the first digital SLR
camera with capacity of 2.74 megapixels. It cost $6000 in the introduction period,
which was an affordable price for professional photographers and high-end
consumers. It also used Nikon F-mount lenses, which allows film photographers
to use many of the same lenses that they own.
Digital camera continued to flourish with the flow
of time due to technological advancement. The digital camera market segmented
into several categories; Bridge Cameras, Compact Digital Still Cameras, Digital
SLRs, and Mirror Less Compacts. One of the major advancement made in digital
technology was the development of CMOS
sensor. It helped to drive the cost of sensor to low enough and enable the
adoption of camera phones. The high-resolution digital cameras are now
routinely included in Smartphones Tablets and many other digital accessories.
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