Author Topic: Not a Micro Four Thirds Camera (Read 664 times)

peterb666 · « **on:** July 29, 2010, 12:09:22 AM »

The first digital camera was made by Kodak some 35 years ago in 1975.

A CCD image sensor recorded a 100 line black and white image onto cassette tape in a speedy 23 seconds.

It was portable but not exactly pocketable and relied on 16 NiCAD batteries to power it.

It used a VCR-sized microcomputer to display images on a TV screen.

Kodak saw it as a threat to their product lines and refused to acknowledge such a creature existed until 2001.

This article was written a couple of years ago and although brief is fascinating...

Kodak Digital Camera

The Micro Four Thirds cameras that we use owe their heritage to this previously forgotten camera.

If you find something interesting in the way of early cameras, film or digital, you might like to share them in this thread.

Comments on any cameras posted welcome.

Over to you to see who can post the most interesting camera...

voyager · « **Reply #1 on:** July 29, 2010, 12:37:08 AM »

Although not quite as revolutionary as the one that you posted, the one that has always inspired me is the start of the Canon EOS Digital Camera line.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Kodak/kodak_dcs520.asp

adash · « **Reply #2 on:** July 29, 2010, 12:45:24 AM »

The tchnology has been in existance for quite a while, it seems. Profitability and technology do not always go hand by hand, you know. Evey industry seems to have it's forgotten children.

Panther · « **Reply #3 on:** July 29, 2010, 02:43:46 AM »

And for Nikon owners (and others who are just curious about Nikon)
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/models/index.htm

adash · « **Reply #4 on:** July 29, 2010, 03:16:29 AM »

http://apphotnum.free.fr/N2BE2.html

1 The Nikon analog recording cameras

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This camera, whose design lines precede them of Nikon N8008 which will come out two years later, is built around a sensor 2/3 " CCC of 300 000 pixels. Luminous signals catched by the CCD, are converted in tension whose value is continuous and, to the difference of actual digital cameras are not translated in bytes. These tensions are then recorded on a magnetic floppy disc of 2'' of diameter. This floppy disc allows recording 25 or 50 B&W images, depending of the definition. The same diskette will be used by the Canon Ion, first digital camera for the mass-market.
It is because there are no conversion tension-bytes that this camera will keep the designation "electronic" or "analogical" and not "digital".
The small size of the sensor brought to the adoption of a specific mounting, the F lenses, which can be gone up using an adapter.
Two lenses were foreseen 6mm/1,6 and 10~40mm/1,4.

Panther · « **Reply #5 on:** July 29, 2010, 08:50:40 PM »

Even more for Nikon & Kodak lovers...
http://www.nikonweb.com/

voyager · « **Reply #6 on:** July 30, 2010, 12:45:08 AM »

The Contax N Digital

The very first full frame camera ever created for digital cameras. Ever heard of it? Most of you haven't. That's because it was a complete failure of a camera.

Not a Micro Four Thirds Camera