Canon EOS D30 Canon’s first “in-house” digital camera, 2000 CE

BTW, it was not my intent to reanimate the OP in this case, but I noticed that I had not corrected the error....

As I have stated elsewhere, it is my intent to rework these older posts and provide a better account in the future.

From

The DCS Story: 17 years of Kodak Professional digital camera systems 1987-2004 (LINK)

by Jim McGarvey

 

What is arguably the first real "digital" camera was based on a Canon F-1

 

 

 

But for various reasons, including Kodak's impression of market viability, by 1989 they had shifted to using Nikon bodies in the 1990 IRIS and by 1991 the

Kodak Professional DCS was released (from Nikon F3), and some 987 units actually sold.

 

The rest is, as they say, history, which you can read in McGarvey's history at the link given above.

 

Although these early Nikon and Canon digital cameras were based on film bodies, as I understand it (a shaky proposition), this was done by Kodak without the direct involvement of the OEMs.

I am talking about the first real Nikon DSLR not Kodak modified one. The first Nikon DSLR is the E2 which was introduced in 1996 before the Canon D30.

I think the search for "priority" between Canon and Nikon is pointless

Like the "largest flour milling complex west of the Saline River" it is easy to define the conditions so whatever you want is technically "true"

Of course, we have seen a lot of this sort of "conditions" in the news over the last 12 months and the last 12 years, to boot.