1995 D-Z


DYCAM Agricultural Digital Camera (ADC)  - 1995.  The ADC was a portable digital camera specifically tailored for multi-band photography in the visible red and near-infrared.  The camera and software allowed calibration for the ambient conditions and applied the calibration value to all images made under the calibrated conditions.  The 24-bit color image from the camera was evaluated by the host software as one of the three supported vegetation indexes (VI). The processed VI image directly represented the result of the index equation used on a pixel-by-pixel basis.  The resulting 8-bit image could be palletized, saved and exported for use with other software. The purpose of the images was to evaluate the condition of crops, especially as to lack of or excessive ground moisture. Similar, but much more advanced systems are still used today.
http://www.dycam.com/agri.html

DYCAM 10-C - (Kodak DC-50 Zoom, Chinon ES-3000) - 1995.  640 x 480 CCD.  ISO 84.  38mm to 114mm zoom  f/2.8 lens.  Shutter 1/16 to 1/500 second.  In-camera storage of 64-192 images or 4MB flashcard. Dycams are seldom seen on eBay as very few were sold. Even rarer is the above camera we purchased complete in its original box with all accessories and original manual, including an optional wide-angle lens. MSRP $950. http://www.dycam.com/agri.html

FUJI DS-220 - 1995.  Auto focus, power zoom 36mm to 72mm lens, built-in flash.  640 x 480 pixel CCD.  MSRP $995.

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/cameraDetail.php?cam=30

FUJI DS-220 (Dental) - 1995.  Not something you come across evryday on eBay. This camera was equipped with a close-up lens and flash as well as an LCD. It was used in a dental office.

INTEL Miniature Card - 1995. Miniature Card or MiniCard is a flash memory card standard first promoted by Intel Corp. in 1995 and backed by Advanced Micro Devices, Fujitsu and Sharp Electronics. The Miniature Card is 37 x 45 x 3.5 mm thick and can have devices on both sides of the substrate. The Miniature Card format competed with SmartMedia and CompactFlash cards, also released during the mid-1990s. Although they were all significantly smaller than Type I PC Cards, the CompactFlash and SmartMedia cards were more successful in the consumer electronics market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_Card

KODAK DC-40 (Logitech Pixtura) - 1995.  756 x 504 pixel CCD.  ISO 84.  4MB internal memory.  42mm, fixed-focus lens.  Shutter 1/30 to 1/175 second.  MSRP $995.
http://www.epi-centre.com/reports/9604ihs.html

KODAK DC-50 ZOOM (Chinon ES-3000, Dycam 10-C) - 1995.  756 x 504 pixel CCD.  ISO 84.  38mm to 114mm zoom  f/2.8 lens.  Shutter 1/16 to 1/500 second.  In-camera storage of 64-192 images.  MSRP $899.

http://www.zerobyzero.ca/~ptatters/DC50main.html

KODAK DCS 460 - 1995.   Based on the Nikon N90S.  The DCS 460 used the same design as the DCS 420, but integrated a CCD chip of 6 million of pixels (2036 x 3060 pixels).  Images were 18MB and were coded on 12 bits.   There were three versions of the DCS 460: DCS 460 c (color), DCS 460 m (black and white), DCS 460 ir (infrared).  MSRP $28,000.  Digital Photography, David Busch, 1995, p49.
http://membres.lycos.fr/ncf/N2BE10.html
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalkamera.de%2FKamera.aspx&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Click on camera quick access

  Kodak DCS 460 CCD

KODAK DCS 465c/m  - 1995.  Example of a digital camera back for medium-format cameras.  Designed to fit the back of the Hasselblad 500/503 and Mamiya RB/RZ67 cameras.  The 465 used a color filter wheel which rotated between exposures.  A built-in microphone allowed the photographer to annotate images before or after shooting.  ISO 100.  2036 x 3060; 12-bit color CCD.  Price, $19,995. A Mamiya RB67 Pro S is shown on the right.   Digital Photography, David Busch, 1995, p49.
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/Kodak/index1.htm

KODAK / CANON EOS DCS 3  – July 1995.  Based on the Canon EOS-1N.  Focal-plane shutter multi-mode AF SLR digital camera with 36-bit full color (RGB each 12 bits).  Imaging element size: 16.4 x 20.5 mm. 1.3 megapixel CCD (1268 horizontal x 1012 vertical pixels).  ISO 200 to 1600 (color) and 400 to 6400 (B&W).   Several models.  Color: EOS-DCS 3c; black-and-white: EOS-DCS 3m; infrared: EOS-DCS 3ir.  ISO: color: 200-1600; black-and-white: 400-6400; infrared: 400-6400.  1268 x 1012 pixel CCD.  Shutter 1/30 to  1/8000 second.    Digital Photography, David Busch, 1995, p50.

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/history/canon_story/f_index.html

KODAK/ CANON EOS DCS 1  – December 1995.  Focal-plane shutter multi-mode single-shot AF SLR digital camera with 36-bit color (RGB each 12 bits). Imaging element size: 18.4 mm (H) x 27.6 mm (W).  Six megapixel CCD (3,060 horizontal x 2,036 vertical pixels).  A 340 megabyte hard disk card allowed 53 high-resolution images to be stored.  The camera was compatible with more than 40 EF lenses.  ISO 200 to 1600 (color), 400 to 1600 (B&W and IR).  Shutter 1/30 to 1/8000 second. 

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/history/canon_story/f_index.html

KODAK/ CANON EOS DCS 5  – 1995.  Models - color: EOS-DCS 5c; black-and-white: EOS-DCS 5m.  ISO: color: 100-400; black-and-white: 200-800.  1524 x 1012 pixel CCD.  Shutter 1/30 to 1/8,000 second.

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/history/canon_story/f_index.html

LEAF LUMINA - 1995. The Leaf Lumina by Leaf Systems Incorporated was a digital SCSI scanner camera used with a 35 mm Bayonet F-Mount Nikon lens.    As a scanning camera, it was used for studio still image photography.   MSRP   $4995 ($31,000 in 2009 dollars).

http://www.dphotoexpert.com2007/08/06/the-leaf-lumina-scanning-camera-1995/

LOGITECH  Fotoman Pixtura (Kodak DC-40)– 1995.  756 x 504 pixel CCD.  ISO 84.  4MB internal memory.  42mm, fixed-focus lens.  Shutter 1/30 to 1/175 second.  MSRP $995.

http://www.encylopedia.com/doc/1G1-17065838.html

LOGITEC VIDEOMAN - 1995. Logitech introduced VideoMan, its first Web camera, meant for sending live and recorded video over the Internet. The Logitech VideoMan was the first color digital-video camera for the personal computer. 640 x 480 pixel image, and a 30-frame-per-second operation.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.01/fetish.html

MINOLTA RD-175 (Agfa ActionCam) - 1995.  Professional/prosumer SLR digicam.  Based on the Minolta Maxxum 500si body.  Resolution = 1528 x 1146 (optical beam splitter with three 380K pixel CCDs).  ISO 800. Interchangeable lens.  Shutter 1/2 to 1/2000 second. Built-in flash and self-timer.  MSRP $13,500.

http://www.epi-centre.com/reports/9605cs.html

OLYMPUS DELTIS VC-1000 II, VC-1100 II, VC-1100 II HS  - 1995.  1/2-inch768 x 576 CCD.  54mm to 108mm f/4 lens.  Shutter 1/8 to 1/10,000 second.  http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~hiharada/plink/pl42/pl4205.htm

 
RICOH RDC-1 - 1995.   The RDC-1 was the first digital camera to offer both still and moving image and sound recording/reproduction.  Its recording capacity on a 24MB PC card was 246 still pictures in standard mode, or 492 in economy mode, or 246 still images in economy mode each with 10 seconds of sound, or 173 still images in standard mode each with 10 seconds of sound, or four video scenes of 5 seconds each with sound, or one hour and forty-five minutes of sound only.  The DM-1 removable 2.5 inch color LCD monitor provided a live viewfinder image.  768 x 480 pixel CCD.  3X f/2.8 zoom.  Approx. $1,500. 

http://www.epi-centre.com/reports/9604fhs.html

RITZ DAKOTA DCC 9500 (Chinon ES-3000, Kodak DC-50, Dycam 10-C) – 1995.   Distributed by Ritz Camera (Chinon ES-3000 shown on left).  640 x 480 pixel CCD.  3:1 zoom lens.  Images were stored in 1MB flash memory on PC cards.  They could be uploaded to a PC via serial cable using the supplied software.   Built-in flash with manual and automatic focus.  The 3:1 power zoom lens had a focal length equivalent to that of a 38mm - 114mm zoom lens on a 35mm film camera.  MSRP $1000.  The Dakota DCC-9500 is at the  lower right in the three-camera group above.  The Kodak DC-50 is on top and the ES-3000 on the  bottom left.  Also sold as the Dycam model 10-C.
www.xs4all.nl/~hschuurm/sanmateo/ Technieuws/digifoto/digifoto.html

SAMSUNG Kenox SSC-410N – 1995.  Developed in 1995, marketed in 1997.  1/3-inch, 768 x 484 pixel CCD.  4MB internal memory.  Lens 40mm to 120mm zoom.  Shutter 1/60 to 1/10,000 second.  Built-in flash.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalkamera.de%2FKamera.aspx&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Click on camera quick access
 

PLAY SNAPPY - 1995.   Video still capture device.  The snappy and similar devices have the capability of capturing still images from various analog or digital moving image sources.  It is a frame grabber that when plugged into a PC's parallel port allows the user to capture images from a camcorder, to a computer. The grabbed frame can then be used to create screensavers, wallpaper, desktop publishing documents or graphics for a web site.

SONY DCR VX-1000 - 1995. The DCR-VX1000 was the first camcorder to capture in the mini-DV (digital) format, and the first with a FireWire port for transferring digital video to a PC. Three 1/3-inch, 410K pixel CCDs, Regarded as a milestone in the history of video recording.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:jhQkRQgjTmsJ:www.camcorderinfo.com/content/sony_dcrvx1000_camcorder_review.htm+%22SONY+DCR+VX-1000%22+1995&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1

 
TOSHIBA ProShot PDR-100 - 1995.  1/3-inch 640 x 80 pixel CCD. F/5.6 lens.  Shutter 1/8 to 1/4000 second.  First compact digital still camera equipped with a modem and communications software allowing users to transmit recorded digital images via standard telephone lines without any additional external equipment.  Auto dial up to ten numbers using fax modem card.  This very rare photo provided through the courtesy of John Mehrmann, Toshiba Coporation.
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/1995_08/pr0701.htm

TOSHIBA SOLID-STATE FLOPPY DISK CARD (SMART MEDIA) - 1995.   The Solid-state Floppy-Disk Card (SSFDC) now called Smart Media, was one of the earliest. It was introduced by Toshiba in 1995 when it was referred to as the Solid State Floppy Disk Card. It is manufactured by a number of companies, some samples of which are sown above. The key difference between a SmartMedia card and a CompactFlash card is that the controller chip is in the camera rather than in the card.   Digital Photography Answers, Dave Johnson, 1999, p278.

http://www.pctechguide.com/37portableRAM_SmartMediaCard.htm
 

1995 D-Z