The Canon EOS DCS 3 was
Kodak's second Canon based
Digital SLR 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 attached. As a result, it maintained the
Canon EF 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, 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
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, ) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, best known for its use with storage devices such as hard disk drives. SCSI was introduced ...
socket for connection to a computer. The imaging element was an
APS-C
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 30.15 mm field d ...
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
PCMCIA card or
IBM Microdrive of the period could store 189 images.
The EOS DCS 3 lacked any internal
JPEG
JPEG ( , short for Joint Photographic Experts Group and sometimes retroactively referred to as JPEG 1) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degr ...
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
yen.
The camera was succeeded by the
Canon EOS D2000 (a rebranded
Kodak DCS 520) in 1998.
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 Eastman Kodak, Kodak in the 1990s and 2000s, and discontinued in 2005. They are all based on existing 35mm film SLRs f ...
References
External links
Canon Camera Museum: Canon EOS DCS 3
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Canon EOS DSLR cameras
Kodak DCS cameras
Cameras introduced in 1995