Kodak DCS 100
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The Kodak Professional Digital Camera System (unofficially named the DCS 100) was the first DSLR camera. It was mounted on a Nikon F3 body and released by Kodak in May of 1991. Aimed at the photo journalism market in order to speed up the transmitting of pictures back to the studio or newsroom, the DCS had a resolution of 1.3 megapixels. It came with an separate shoulder carried Digital Storage Unit (DSU) to store and to visualize the images, and to house the batteries. The DSU contained a 200 megabyte hard disk drive, that could store up to 156 images without compression, or up to 600 images using the optional JPEG compatible compression board. An external keyboard allowed entry of captions and other image information.
The Kodak Professional Digital Camera System was available with two different digital format backs. The DC3 color back used a custom color filter array layout. The DM3 monochrome back had no color filter array. A few DM3 backs were manufactured without IR filters.
Internally, It has a 3.5" SCSI hard drive. It connects to a computer via an external SCSI interface. It appears as a non-disk SCSI device, and can be accessed by a TWAIN-based plugin for Photoshop 3.
[edit] External links
- Nikonweb Vintage Nikon and Nikon-based-Kodak DSLRs
- A brief info on Kodak DCS-Series Digital Still SLR cameras
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