The Canon EOS DCS 1 was
Kodak's third Canon-based
Digital SLR
A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor.
The reflex design scheme is the primary difference between ...
camera (a rebranded
Kodak EOS DCS-1). It was released in December 1995, following the cheaper
EOS DCS 3, which was released earlier that year. Like that camera, it combined an
EOS-1N body with a modified
Kodak
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DCS 460 digital back. Despite offering a then-enormous resolution of 6 megapixels with a relatively large
APS-H
Advanced Photo System type-C (APS-C) is an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the Advanced Photo System film negative in its C ("Classic") format, of 25.1×16.7 mm, an aspect ratio of 3:2 and Ø 31.15 mm field d ...
sensor, a number of technical issues (together with its 3.6 million
yen
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price) meant that it was never a very popular camera other than for a few people with specialized roles.
Although the sensor was much larger than the EOS DCS 3, the DCS 1 had a lower fixed sensitivity of ISO 80. The large image size resulted in a burst rate of just over one image per second for two images, followed by an eight-second delay to clear the buffer.
A typical contemporary 340MB
PCMCIA card
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or
IBM Microdrive could store 53 images.
In line with the rest of the
Kodak DCS
The Kodak Digital Camera System is a series of digital single-lens reflex cameras and digital camera backs that were released by Kodak in the 1990s and 2000s, and discontinued in 2005. They are all based on existing 35mm film SLRs from Nikon, Cano ...
range, the EOS DCS 1 could not produce
JPEG files in camera.
The EOS DCS 1 was succeeded in 1998 by the
EOS D6000 (a rebranded
Kodak DCS 560).
See also
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Kodak DCS
The Kodak Digital Camera System is a series of digital single-lens reflex cameras and digital camera backs that were released by Kodak in the 1990s and 2000s, and discontinued in 2005. They are all based on existing 35mm film SLRs from Nikon, Cano ...
References
External links
Canon Camera Museum: EOS DCS 1
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Canon EOS DSLR cameras
Kodak DCS cameras