[shiner]

Just 23 seconds to record 0.01 megapixels!

[normhead]

That's amazing... reminds me of my old Atari 400 with the tape drive and the games that ran in 32kb. A buddy of mine bought one of the first commercial hard drives, it was 4 Mb and it held every game and other piece of software he owned and had 2 Mb left over. The crazy thing is, this camera predates that by about 5 years. I'm guessing since I don't remember any early Kodak digital cameras, that the suits decided this was not a path worth pursuing.

[boriscleto]

AFAIK the first commercially available digital camera from Kodak was the DCS in 1991. The first consumer digital was the QuickTake 100, built by Kodak but developed and sold by Apple in 1994.

Kodak DCS 100 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.nikonweb.com/files/DCS_Story.pdf

[eddie1960]

AFAIK the first commercially available digital camera from Kodak was the DCS in 1991. The first consumer digital was the QuickTake 100, built by Kodak but developed and sold by Apple in 1994.

Kodak DCS 100 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.nikonweb.com/files/DCS_Story.pdf

the dcs100

Aimed at the photo journalism market in order to improve the speed with which photographs could be transmitted back to the studio or newsroom, the DCS had a resolution of 1.3 megapixels. T

A total of 987 units were sold

HAHAHAH, now off course anything less than a D3 resolution is "not good enough" for a journo

[boriscleto]

The DCS 100 came with a separate shoulder carried Digital Storage Unit (DSU) to store and to visualize the images, and to house the batteries. The DSU contained a Winchester 200 megabyte hard disk drive that could store up to 156 images without compression, or up to 600 images using a JPEG compatible compression board that was offered later as an optional extra.

[eddie1960]

very portable , can just see a war zone journo running down the street with that monster slung over his shoulder lol

sort of explains - 987 units sold

[boriscleto]

very portable , can just see a war zone journo running down the street with that monster slung over his shoulder lol

sort of explains - 987 units sold

More portable than the "Tactical camera" described in the PDF.

I think the main reason they only sold 987 units was that it cost between $20,000 and $25,000 in 1991 dollars. That's $40,000 in 2010 dollars.

[Tonto]

That picture of the DCS100 sure puts things into perspective of how much tech is crammed into our little cameras, and it was ONLY 1991!

[normhead]

I think the main reason they only sold 987 units was that it cost between $20,000 and $25,000 in 1991 dollars. That's $40,000 in 2010 dollars.

That explains why no one snapped up 13 more to make it an even thousand.

[builttospill]

A fun post.

A long time ago at work we used a bunch of the Kodak DC40 cameras. It was much quicker than taking film to the 1-hour labs, but they weren't cheap at the time.