The ’90s may be best known for 16-bit toys, Tamagotchis, and the earliest foldable phones, but I remember it over a decade as we watched digital cameras transition from expensive tools for professional photographers to devices accessible to the average consumer—complete with an awkward adolescence as companies Willing to try anything to highlight their digital camera designs.
Walk into a phone shop today and you’ll be greeted by racks and shelves of featureless panes of glass, but it wasn’t always like this. There was a time when smartphones came in countless shapes, sizes, and designs, and the same was true of digital cameras as they moved into the consumer space. It may not be easy to differentiate the mirrorless shooters you’ll find in camera shops today by design alone, but in the 1990s, when technology was new and fresh for consumers, companies were more willing to experiment with hardware, either helping to differentiate their products from the competition or overcoming limitations. technology at that time.
Digital cameras ended up in our favorite handheld consoles, but by the end of the ’90s, devices finally found their way, offering features and functionality on par with film cameras that were eventually becoming obsolete. Here are some of the most notable digital camera designs of the ’90s, and how they helped contribute to the features and functionality of the shooters we still use today — at least until they’re all eventually replaced by smartphones.
(tags to translate) Logitech