Digital Point-and-Shoot Cameras
Point-and-shoot cameras, like the Brownie and the Instamatic from the predigital era, get most photographers hooked. In many ways, digital compacts are even more seductive than their predecessors because they can do much more and produce photographs of a high enough quality to be used just about anywhere and for any purpose.
The 1996 release of the Canon PowerShot 600, with its half megapixel sensor, was the camera that started the ball rolling. Olympus and Casio also released digital compact cameras during the same year, and January 1997 saw the first Nikon in the category. Nikon’s Coolpix brand is still in use today, as is Canon’s Power-Shot moniker.
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