1997年是普及型数字静像照相机（以下在本文中基本上简称“数字相机”）大发展的一年。从生产销售数量来看，根据美国Dataquest公司报告，1996今各类数字相机总销售量为110万台，1997年的预计销售量为190万台。另据日本通产省的统计资料，日本1995年生产各类数字相机仅5.3万台 1997 is a year of great development for universal digital still cameras (hereafter referred to basically as “digital cameras” in this article). From the number of production and sales, according to the US Dataquest company reported that in 1996 all kinds of digital cameras total sales of 110 million units in 1997, the estimated sales of 1.9 million units. According to the statistics of Japan’s MITI, Japan produced only 53,000 digital cameras of various types in 1995