Hey, Gang!
This morning I was enjoying "ruminating" about the advancing timeline of Canon DSLRs!
This is interesting stuff, both in the history of things and in the affect these advances have had upon the exploding digital photography field, and of course we are all aware of 1) The rich new features that have come out over the years and 2) the strides that the other camera makers have made to catch up and in some areas surpass the Canon strides!
My history with digital photography lagged a bit. In the '90s I worked with digital images via scanners and the early inkjet printers, I was stuck with film during that era, although you could see the future opening up before our very eyes!
In the '90s, Canon and a few others began to come out with digital cameras. Most of the available things were the compact digicams with obvious shortcomings, and the bulk of "serious" photographers that I interacted with shrugged off those cameras for their work with portraits/weddings and high quality landscapes and such.
Now, though, in the '90s things were stirring up -- Kodak had produced sensors that could be mounted in camera bodies, and even though Kodak shut down the operation, Canon picked up the sensors and put out bodies that could mount lenses, the very first DSLRs! And so, we went into the year 2000, when Canon came out with their own designed DSLR, the D30, and hey, it was the beginning of a whole new world!
The smaller compact digicams (with fixed lenses and smaller sensors/resolution) kept coming out. The "serious" photographers still tended to look "askance" at the technology, not seeing things digital meeting up with the quality they were getting with their 35mm film and certainly not medium/large format film, but digital was getting peoples attention!
And then, in 2001-2003, things began to make big leaps, with the introduction of the 1Ds full frame and the 1D APS-H bodies, both larger, but with some things that made a difference, although I imagine that they were a bit to big and spendy for folks to want to lug around. But then in 2003 the 10D came out, and what I saw is that those "serious" photographers began to totally change their tune! People began to seriously compare the 10D images with their 35mm film images, and wow, they were impressed and buying in!
As we've seen, the APS-C "crop" bodies have truly given digital it's "place"! But then, wow, along came the 5D full-frame body, smaller than the 1D bodies but wonderful in so many ways, hey, photographers are still enthused with the 5D Classic!
And then it has kept going! Canon used their 1D ASC-H design to totally captivate fields in wildlife and sports, I remember shooting in events with my 1DMk3 and then the 5D Classic as my "walk around" body, and those two were in their "prime" years ('06 through '08 or thereabouts), and hey, Nikon shooters would drool at the kit I was packing...
So, it's been quite a journey! It's been fun for me, starting with my first digicam (a compact "super-zoom") in '01, and then moving up and on!
Well, hey, if you're interested, I Googled "canon dslr timeline" and a nice Wiki page came up with a nice chart:
https://en.wikipedia.org …Canon_EOS_digital_cameras
Well, have fun!
