1990, Kodak introduced the DCS 100 electronic camera, and established the general model of digital camera for the first time in the world. Since then, this model has become the industry standard. For professional photographers, if the new machine has a familiar fuselage and control mode, it will undoubtedly become easier to use. In order to cater to this consumer psychology, Kodak applied DCS 100 to the famous Nikon F3 fuselage at that time. Except for the focusing screen and film winding motor, its internal functions have changed greatly, all functions are the same as F3, and it is compatible with most Nikon lenses. By 1994, digital imaging technology has made unprecedented development at the speed of thousands of miles a day. Kodak is a pioneer in the development and promotion of digital cameras. This year Kodak introduced the world's first commercial digital camera DC40. Compared with various digital camera prototypes developed by major companies before, Kodak DC40 is smaller, more convenient to operate and more reasonable in price, which can be accepted by some consumers. It has become a very important symbol in the history of digital cameras. 1February 1995, Casio released a digital camera QV- 10, which caused a sensation in the global digital camera field at that time. This camera has 250,000 pixels and a resolution of 320*240 pixels, and there is no built-in flash. This configuration was already very mainstream at that time, but its price hit a record low at that time, with only 65,000 yen listed. Its appearance made many consumers realize that digital cameras can be so popular, which also triggered the first hot-selling storm in the digital camera market. Therefore, many people think that Casio QV- 10 is the first commercial digital camera in the world. In the same year, Canon launched the first digital SLR cameras EOS DCS3C and EOS DCS 1C, which turned a new page for Canon SLR digital cameras.

As a pioneer representative manufacturer of digital cameras, Kodak naturally strongly supports the digital development of cameras. 1995, Kodak's board of directors made a decision to develop digital science in an all-round way, and in 1996, it jointly launched DCS-460 and DCS-620X digital cameras with Nikon and DCS-420 digital cameras (professional version) with Canon. These digital cameras used a 6-megapixel image sensor, which was the highest-end digital camera at that time, and also made Kodak the highest-end digital camera. The development of post-digital cameras can be said to be rapid and incredible. 1995 The number of pixels of digital cameras listed is only 4 1000. Last year alone, by 1996, the number of pixels in digital cameras reached 8 10000, almost twice that of 1995. The shipment of 1996 digital cameras also set a historical record, reaching 500,000 units. Since the beginning of this year, digital cameras have entered the eyes of consumers in an all-round way and become one of the spokesmen of popular fashion in people's lives.

1996 became a very important milestone in the history of digital cameras. Since then, digital cameras have entered a new era of order of magnitude development.

1September, 997, Sony released the MVC FD7 digital camera, which is the first digital camera in the world that uses a conventional 3.5-inch floppy disk as the storage medium. Sony has also begun to vigorously enter the digital camera industry. In June/KOOC-0/65438+/KOOC-0/October of the same year, Kodak Company released DC2/KOOC-0/0 digital camera. This digital camera uses a/kloc-0.09 million square pixel CCD image sensor, and also begins to use zoom lens in digital cameras, making a new breakthrough in the development of digital cameras.

If 1996 is the era when digital cameras began to contend, then 1997 is a year of comprehensive technological innovation. Also in 1997, Olympus, a veteran optical manufacturer, took the lead in introducing the CA-MEDIAC- 1400L SLR digital camera with over one million pixels, which caused a great sensation in the industry. Therefore, at 1997 PMA International Photographic Equipment Expo, as a new thing, a large number of digital cameras appeared in this exhibition, which was originally dominated by traditional photographic equipment, which brought great impact to the traditional photographic equipment market.

The combination of camera and computer, the input and output of digital images, etc. Has become a topic of concern to everyone. Many IT vendors have also begun to set foot in the production of digital cameras. Major companies have launched mass digital cameras with high pixels and low prices. The price of many digital cameras remains below $65,438+$0,000, and the cheapest camera is only $200. This creates excellent conditions for ordinary families to buy digital cameras, and also opens a new chapter in the popularization and development of digital cameras.

In the digital camera market of 1998, digital cameras are not only regarded as fresh toys. 1998 is a year of great development of consumer digital cameras, and a large number of low-priced "megapixel" digital cameras have become a major attraction of the whole market. At the same time, "Megapixel" digital camera has become the mainstream product in the market. The digital camera launched this year not only greatly improves the pixel and quality, but also has rich functions, and is developing towards miniaturization and functional integration. Of course, the most important thing is that its price is further reduced and can be accepted by more ordinary people.

This year alone, there are more than 60 kinds of digital cameras released or listed, and more than 20 manufacturers have joined in, making it a year for digital camera manufacturers to blossom. Among them, Casio, fujifilm, Kodak, Minolta, Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Sanyo, Sony and Seiko Epson have all launched more than three digital cameras, and manufacturers such as Agfa, Hewlett-Packard, Konica, Philips and Ricoh have also launched two digital cameras this year, Toshiba, Panasonic, Hitachi, JVC, Kyocera, Leica and Samsung. When consumers have more choices, the competition among digital camera manufacturers is greatly intensified. Judging from our current situation, it is a pity that a large number of manufacturers have gradually withdrawn from the production of digital cameras.

1998 Canon introduced the digital camera PowerShot Pro70 with the highest pixel at that time, which became a masterpiece of the industry at that time. This camera has 2.5 times optical zoom and 2 times digital zoom, TTL autofocus function, automatic exposure, 2-inch color TPY LCD screen, and can shoot 4 frames per second for up to 5 seconds. This camera is a very classic and historic model, not only then, but now.

In the field of SLR digital cameras, 1999 also has a new look. Nikon released the first self-developed SLR digital camera D 1. The appearance of this camera gave consumers a new understanding of SLR digital cameras, which triggered the earliest competition of SLR digital cameras.

Nikon D 1 is designed on the basis of the traditional camera F5, equipped with a 2.74 million pixel CCD, and the sensitivity comes from ISO200- 1600. It uses CF I/II memory card as storage medium and is compatible with micro hard disk. Support JPEG, TIFF and RAW file formats. At that time, the price was $5,580, which was much lower than that of Kodak DCS camera, creating a precedent for the commercialization of SLR. But at $5,580, it's still quite expensive. From this point, it is enough to see the rapid development and technological innovation of SLR digital cameras.

In 2000, not only in terms of computers, but also in terms of storage equipment, there was a great improvement. Therefore, the pixel of digital camera is also on the basis of 2 million, no matter how high the building is. 3 million pixels has become a hot spot in market development. Zoom lens has become another object that manufacturers pay attention to. Digital cameras with optical zoom 10 times began to appear in people's sight.

June 5438+October 2000 10, Nikon CoolPix 990 and Olympus CAMEMIA C-3030Z went on sale almost at the same time, which indicated that the 3-megapixel digital camera gradually became the market leader in Hua Dan.

In February 2000, Seagull released the first generation domestic digital camera DSC- 1 100 in China.

In May 2000, Canon introduced a brand-new digital SLR camera EOS D30, replacing CCD with CMOS, which made great progress in image quality and imaging.

Of course, in order to further reduce manufacturing costs and seize the field of low-cost civil digital cameras, digital camera manufacturers have begun to use their mature assembly lines and manufacturing processes to segment the market. The same fuselage adopts different levels of internal configuration to meet the needs of consumers at different levels. This change has now become an important way for digital camera manufacturers to reduce costs and has been adopted by major manufacturers. But at that time, it was definitely an epoch-making change.

With the reduction of price and the improvement of technology, digital cameras have finally come into people's lives from high temples, and have changed from high-tech military products to ordinary civilian products. After entering 2000, the development of digital cameras is getting faster and faster, and people feel the charm of digital images more and more deeply through digital cameras.