Canon’s first consumer digital camera

Digital Camera Canon PowerShot 600 (1996)
570,000 pixel (832x608) sensor
Storage: 1mb Internal & PCMCIA
7mm f/2.5AF
$950.00 USD

My Little History of Digital Compacts

So much for our pixel peeping tendencies. 😁
But I guess at the time of VGA monitors, you would blast the image on full screen, no issue.

For sure 😎

Canon PowerShot Pro70 (1998)

• The Canon PowerShot Pro70 is the first camera ever tested for the site DPReview
  Published Dec 25, 1998, | Phil Askey

The Canon PowerShot Pro70 (1998-99)
1,680,000 pixel sensor (1536x1024)
Storage: CompactFlash (two slots)
$1,500.00 USD

Unboxing

www.flickr.com/photos/maoby/albums/72157635352973786

... and hope that any mapped-out pixels didn't fall in a critical location in the image, like in someone's eye.

$1500 1998 dollars - That's about $3000 today, which would purchase a mirrorless 50MP camera with lens, almost instantaneous AF, face recognition, 10 FPS, video, etc., etc., etc

Rich

PhotoImpact brings back memories. That was one of the programs I used to use.
Bob