Back to Dick’s Gadget Warehouse for Casio's 1st Digital Camera.
December 3, 2011 1 Comment 
Since we’ve been reporting on so many new, semi-high-end digital cameras on the WDGW, I decided to revisit Casio’s first digital camera, the QV-10. I originally talked about on March 10th, 2006, episode 15 of The Daily Giz Wiz. The Casio QV-10 was introduced in 1996. It was said to be the first under $1,000 consumer digital camera. The introduction price was a “low” $650. For that price you got a camera with a whopping 2 MB of non-removable memory. It had no flash, and it offered a resolution of 320 X 240. At that resolution the QV-10 could store up to 96 pictures! But some 15+ years ago this camera was the "gee wiz" talk of all my friends. There was an endless stream of people into my office so people could peer at their digital image on the 1.8” LCD color screen. The QV-10 had a novel flip-over lens so you could see and shot a picture of yourself. But with no removable memory the one thing had to be avoided at all costs was accidentally turning the camera off, or interrupting the AC power while it was processing a digital image. That could cause the camera to display FATAL ERROR. Fatal Error back then was really severe. It meant you could not reboot the camera. Only Casio Tech Support could do, so you had to send the camera back to them! Pretty archaic, no?
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Reader Comments (1)
The first digital camera looks very funny :D
Compare this camera and for example Canon PowerShot G12