Canon is celebrating a camera-manufacturing milestone. The combined production of their compact digital and interchangeable-lens digital cameras surpassed 250 million units on January 31, 2014. Canon has been manufacturing cameras since it was founded in 1937. The company started producing and marketing digital cameras in the mid-1990s. In 1995, when film cameras were still the norm, Canon launched its first digital camera, the professional-model EOS DCS 3 digital SLR camera (jointly developed with Eastman Kodak and also sold under the Kodak brand). At the time, compact cameras were leading the digital shift within the camera industry. In 1996, Canon announced its market entry with the introduction of the digital PowerShot 600. As for interchangeable-lens digital cameras, while the market in the mid-1990s had consisted primarily of professional models, with the start of the 2000s the segment rapidly took off. In 2000, Canon launched the EOS D30 to satisfy the needs of a ...