The little history of digital camera from 1991 to today ...

Maoby · Feb 18, 2018

Kodak DCS 100 Pro Digital Camera
It still works! After 25 years

Kodak DCS 100 Pro Digital Camera (1991) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

Maoby · Feb 18, 2018

A picture taken with the Kodak DCS 100

Elle semble très gentille ( Kodak DCS 100 ) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

Derrel · Feb 18, 2018

I see by your Flickr that you've shot _MANY_ of the very earliest d-slr cameras! Very cool!

KmH · Feb 18, 2018

And that camera had a whopping 1.3 MP image sensor.

Frank F. · Feb 18, 2018

hm. The photo shows good design but significant flaws in the editing. Is there a RAW file? Can you read it still with some software that runs on any modernm system or virtual machine?

Maoby · Feb 18, 2018

Maoby said:
A picture taken with the Kodak DCS 100

Elle semble très gentille ( Kodak DCS 100 ) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

Derrel said:
I see by your Flickr that you've shot _MANY_ of the very earliest d-slr cameras! Very cool!

Thank you very much!

Maoby · Feb 18, 2018

Frank F. said:
hm. The photo shows good design but significant flaws in the editing. Is there a RAW file? Can you read it still with some software that runs on any modernm system or virtual machine?

Oh no!

I use a PowerBook G3 233MHz (1998)
With a SCSI CONNECTION
Mac OS 8.6 with 96MB
Photoshop 6.0 with Plug-In Kodak Digital Storage Unit

N°910 Kodak DCS 100 (1991) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

dxqcanada · Feb 18, 2018

Hmm, Derrel is right ... like your self portrait: Which?
I am amazed with the image quality of those early cameras.

photoflyer · Feb 19, 2018

So Kodak made the first digital camera for Nikon? Or is this a film Nikon with a Kodak build digital adapter in place of film?

Of course commercial digital cameras had flown in space for a few decades before this. They cost millions. How much was this in 1991 $s?

dxqcanada · Feb 19, 2018

"The 1.3 megapixel Nikon F3 based Kodak DCS (Digital Camera System) was announced by Kodak in 1991. The camera consists of an unmodified F3 HP camera body attached to a custom made winder and a digital back."

https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2013/06/kodakbluechip-2.jpeg