The Most Popular Digital Cameras
A short history of Digital Photography.
The first fully digital camera was successfully made in 1988. While Steven Sasson and Kodak claim they invented the world’s first digital camera in the 1970s, their claim isn’t entirely accurate. Kodak’s digital camera of the 70s was just a stepping stone to the first fully digital camera produced by Fuji in 1988.
While other types of digital cameras had been released in the late 1960s, the Fuji DS-1P was the first all digital camera ever invented. In this case, all digital refers to the way the camera was able to store its captured images. Early digital cameras, also referred to as electronic cameras, stored images to a magnetic medium called a video floppy. The Fuji DS-1P was the world’s first camera to be able to save image data to a semiconductor memory card. The digital cameras of today still operate using the same semiconductor memory card technology.
Since the invention of the Fuji DS-1P in 1988, technology has advanced significantly. While semiconductor memory cards are still used to store images in digital camera, the quality of digital cameras has increased significantly. Over the last three decades, there have been five major types of digital cameras to emerge. These five digital cameras consist of smartphone cameras, compact cameras, bridge cameras, mirrorless…
