Kodak DCS-100
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The Kodak Professional Digital Camera System or DCS, (unofficially later named the DCS 100,) was the first commercially available DSLR
camera. It was mounted on a Nikon F3
body and released by Kodak in May 1991 after previously shown at Photokina in 1990. 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. The DCS 100 was publicly presented for the first time in Arles (France), at the Journées de l'Image Pro by Mr Ray H. DeMoulin, the worldwide President of the Eastman Kodak Company. 453 international journalists attended this presentation, which took place in the Palais des Congres of Arles.
The DCS 100 came with a separate shoulder carried Digital Storage Unit (DSU) to store and to visualize the images, and to house the batteries. The DSU contained a Winchester 200 megabyte hard disk drive that could store up to 156 images without compression, or up to 600 images using a JPEG
compatible compression board that was offered later as an optional extra. 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.
There were many models of the DCS 100 with different buffers, monochrome, color, transmission versions with keyboard and modem.
A total of 987 units were sold.
Digital single-lens reflex camera
Most digital single-lens reflex cameras are digital cameras that use a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens to an optical viewfinder on the back of the camera....
camera. It was mounted on a Nikon F3
Nikon F3
The Nikon F3 was Nikon's third professional single-lens reflex camera body, preceded by the F and F2. Introduced in 1980, it had manual and semi-automatic exposure control whereby the camera would select the correct shutter speed . The Nikon F3 series cameras had the most model variations of any...
body and released by Kodak in May 1991 after previously shown at Photokina in 1990. 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. The DCS 100 was publicly presented for the first time in Arles (France), at the Journées de l'Image Pro by Mr Ray H. DeMoulin, the worldwide President of the Eastman Kodak Company. 453 international journalists attended this presentation, which took place in the Palais des Congres of Arles.
The DCS 100 came with a separate shoulder carried Digital Storage Unit (DSU) to store and to visualize the images, and to house the batteries. The DSU contained a Winchester 200 megabyte hard disk drive that could store up to 156 images without compression, or up to 600 images using a JPEG
JPEG
In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....
compatible compression board that was offered later as an optional extra. 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
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, and electrical and optical interfaces. SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it...
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
TWAIN
TWAIN is a standard software protocol and applications programming interface that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras....
-based plugin for Photoshop 3.
There were many models of the DCS 100 with different buffers, monochrome, color, transmission versions with keyboard and modem.
A total of 987 units were sold.
External links
- The DCS Story
- Nikonweb's article on the DCS 100
- An article on Kodak DCS-Series Digital Still SLR cameras from Photography in Malaysia