The Canon EOS DCS 3 was Kodak's second 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 a ...

camera (a rebranded Kodak EOS-DCS 3) released in July 1995, four months after Kodak EOS-DCS 5. It uses a modified Canon EOS-1N film camera with a modified Kodak NC2000e

digital camera back A digital camera back is a device that attaches to the back of a camera in place of the traditional negative film holder and contains an electronic image sensor. This lets cameras that were designed to use film take digital photographs. Th ...

attached. As a result, it maintained the

Canon EF The EF lens mount is the standard lens mount on the Canon EOS family of SLR film and digital cameras. EF stands for "Electro-Focus": automatic focusing on EF lenses is handled by a dedicated electric motor built into the lens. Mechanically, it ...

lens mount, and full compatibility with all of Canon's EF lenses made until that time. The camera was followed by the six megapixel

Canon EOS DCS 1 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- ...

, which was released later in December 1995. The back had a then-massive 16MB of RAM to act as an image buffer, as well as a PCMCIA card slot for image storage, plus a

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socket for connection to a computer. The imaging element was an

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sensor with a 1.5x crop factor, and a resolution of 1268 x 1012 pixels (1.3 mp). The camera back did not have an LCD monitor. A typical 260MB

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or IBM Microdrive of the period could store 189 images. The EOS DCS 3 lacked any internal

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processing, and images had to be processed on a computer before they were usable in any form. The large amount of memory contributed to the then-immense price of the EOS DCS 3, at nearly two million

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. The camera was succeeded by the

Canon EOS D2000 The Canon EOS D2000 (a Canon branded Kodak DCS 520) is a 2-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera developed by Kodak on a Canon EOS-1N body. It was released in March 1998. It features a CCD sensor and can shoot at 3.5 frames per second. ...

(a rebranded Kodak DCS 520) in 1998.

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Canon Camera Museum: Canon EOS DCS 3
{{DEFAULTSORT:DCS 3 Canon EOS DSLR cameras Kodak DCS cameras Products introduced in 1995

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