The Canon EOS DCS 1 was
Kodak's third Canon-based
Digital SLR 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 DCS 460 digital back. Despite offering a then-enormous resolution of 6 megapixels with a relatively large
APS-H sensor, a number of technical issues (together with its 3.6 million
yen 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 or
IBM Microdrive could store 53 images.
In line with the rest of the
Kodak DCS range, the EOS DCS 1 could not produce
JPEG
JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and imag ...
files in camera.
The EOS DCS 1 was succeeded in 1998 by the
EOS D6000 (a rebranded
Kodak DCS 560).
See also
*
Kodak DCS
References
External links
Canon Camera Museum: EOS DCS 1
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Canon EOS DSLR cameras
Kodak DCS cameras