{"id":579,"date":"2012-12-13T23:27:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T23:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2012-12-17T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T14:58:02","slug":"history-of-dslr-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/history-of-dslr-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"History of DSLR cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some photographers are very brand-loyal and biased, particularly regarding Nikon and Canon.\u00a0 All I can say is &#8230; thank goodness for Canon AND Nikon, competetively driving each other to create excellent cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few highlights from the history of DSLR cameras.<br \/>\n(intentionally ignoring digital backs for medium format cameras)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1991 Kodak DCS-100\u00a0 &#8230; first DSLR\u00a0 (based on a modified Nikon body)<\/li>\n<li>1995 Canon\/Kodak DCS 3 &#8230; Kodak digital camera back on a modified Canon body<\/li>\n<li>1999 Nikon D1\u00a0\u00a0&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. first practical\/affordable DSLR for mass market<\/li>\n<li>2001 Canon 1D\u00a0\u00a0&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; landmark for sports photography; 8 fps and reduced shutter lag<\/li>\n<li>2002 Canon 1Ds\u00a0&#8230;&#8230;.. first DSLR with a full-frame sensor<\/li>\n<li>2004 Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro&#8230; first DSLR with live preview<\/li>\n<li>2007 Nikon D3\u00a0&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Nikon&#8217;s first Fx (full-frame) DSLR<\/li>\n<li>2007 Canon 1DS mkIII .. 21 megapixels, first DSLR to exceed 18Mp<\/li>\n<li>2008 Nikon D90\u00a0&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. first DSLR to shoot 720 HD video<\/li>\n<li>2008 Canon 5D mkII\u00a0&#8230;. first DSLR to shoot 1080 HD video<\/li>\n<li>2012 Nikon D3200\u00a0&#8230;&#8230;. 24 megapixels, Nikon&#8217;s first DSLR to exceed 18Mp<\/li>\n<li>2012 Nikon D800\u00a0&#8230;&#8230;.. 36 megapixels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>References:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.print-digital.info\/articles\/history-of-canon-dslr.html\">http:\/\/www.print-digital.info\/articles\/history-of-canon-dslr.html<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenrockwell.com\/nikon\/dslr.htm\">http:\/\/www.kenrockwell.com\/nikon\/dslr.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some photographers are very brand-loyal and biased, particularly regarding Nikon and Canon.\u00a0 All I can say is &#8230; thank goodness for Canon AND Nikon, competetively driving each other to create excellent cameras. Here are a few highlights from the history of DSLR cameras. (intentionally ignoring digital backs for medium format cameras) 1991 Kodak DCS-100\u00a0 &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[43,63],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-dslr","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}