DSLRs

The first commercially available DSLR was the Kodak Digital Camera System (DCS) 100, released in May 1991. It was aimed squarely at the photojournalism market, and to this end it came with a separate portable digital storage unit that stored either 156 or 600 images on its 200-megabyte hard drive, depending on whether or not compression was used. There was also an external keyboard intended for captioning the photographs. The camera was capable of producing 1.3-megapixel images. Just shy of a thousand units were sold.

Kodak completely dominated the DSLR market in the early years, and Nikon didn’t even begin to develop the D1, the camera that revolutionized the industry, until 1996. This was five years after the release of the DCS 100. Nikon ...

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