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MIKKEL AALAND and RUDOLPH BURDGER / DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY – 1992.  Mikkel Aaland is an award-winning American photographer and is known for work in the early days of digital photography. His documentary photographs have been exhibited in major institutions around the world, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the former Lenin Museum in Prague. Aaland is the author of books featuring his own photojournalism as well as works on digital imaging and various Adobe Photoshop products.

Rudolph Burger received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, a graduate degree from Yale University, and a doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge.  He is a specialist in color calibration technology.  Dr. Burger is Chief Executive Officer at Scipher Plc and Managing Partner at Woodside Capital Partners LLC.  He is on the Board of Directors at Seeing Machines Ltd. and Bango Plc.

Digital Photography, Random House, New York, 1992, was an early book which described the equipment and techniques of digital photography and image manipulation.  It was written especially for professional and amateur photographers and graphic designers who wished to exploit the then new field of  digital imaging.  The book discusses both still video and the few digital cameras available at that time.  This book is important to collectors of early still video and digital cameras because it provides much useful information about those early electronic cameras and associated equipment. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikkel_Aaland

Canon EOS Rebel II SLR (EOS 1000 N in Europe, EOS 1000 S in Japan) - 1992.  First Rebel upgrade.  The Rebel II is without built in flash. The model with flash is the Rebel S II.  EF lens mount.  Shutter 30 Sec. to 1/2000th plus bulb.  The EOS Rebel II usually came with a 35-80mm f/4-5.6 zoom lens.  This camera in excellent condition with the original 35-80mm lens, 80-200mm lens, Promaster 1.7 teleconverter and 200E flash unit was donated by our good friend Chuck Haines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsHCUI0TItE

CANON RC-560/570 - 1992.   The RC-560/570 still video camera used a 1/2 inch, 410,000 pixel CCD image sensor and Hi-band specification to produce images with horizontal resolution of 450 TV lines.  3X zoom and integral automatic flash.  An optional recording interface daughterboard for the Mac NuBus card could give the additional flexibility of converting digital images to analog and recording them with the camera. This would allow downloading a computer-generated presentation onto a video floppy from Aldus Persuasion or similar package (including photos originally taken by the electronic camera), as a series of video slides.  When transferred into the computer, the pictures were digitized into 24-bit color or 8-bit grayscale tiff or pict files.  The Canon RC-570 sold for $3,400. The Mac kit (RC-560) with NuBus digitizer board was $4,100 including the camera.  Adding the digital-to-analog output daughterboard cost $400. The camera plus external video floppy drive package was $5,900 for the Mac; $6,650 for Next; $6,350 for Microchannel computers; and $6,250 for AT-bus PCs.  We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera.

http://global.canon/ja/c-museum/product/svc448.html

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canon_RC-560_img_0830.jpg

 
CANON ION RC-360 AND SV-PV - 1992.    The RC-360 was a battery-powered still video camera with a 1/2-inch, 260,000 pixel CCD image sensor.  Horizontal resolution of 380 TV lines.  The RC-360 could record up to 50 images on a miniature floppy disk.  All of the outputs were analog.  Downloading images into a computer required a digitizer such as the Canon SV-PC digitizer board shown on the middle right of the left photo.  MSRP:  $2,600 with digitizer.  We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera.

http://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/svc449.html

https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/esvc/item/canon-rc360

 
DYCAM MODEL 3/3XL / LOGITECH FOTOMAN PLUS FM-2 - 1992.  Gray scale or 24 bit color when using an optional color filter system (contrary to what you may read on some sites).   Lens 65 mm F/4.5.  495 x 366 pixel CCD.  ASA 200.  Shutter 1/30 to 1/2000 second with flash, 1/20 to 1/2000 without flash, 1MB internal storage.  Fixed-focus lens. MSRP $695.  The XL had 4MB storage and better battery.  MSRP $895.  We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera. 

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Dycam

https://www.digicammuseum.de/kameras/detailansicht/kamera/Kamera/techdata/fotoman-plus/

FUJI DS-H2 - 1992. 1/2-inch 390K pixel CCD. 2X lens.  Shutter 1/4 to 1/750 second.   Memory card stored up to 40 images.  Built-in autoflash, autofocus, and autoexposure control.  Popular Photography, January 1993, p47.  We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera.

FUJI HC-1000 IMAGE CAPTURE CAMERA - 1992. Also sold as the Crosfield Celsis 160.  Three 900K pixel CCDs, 1280 x 960 pixel image. This camera was generally used for medical research purposes. Photo-Electronic Imaging, October 1992, page 50. MSRP $32,000 (approx $52,000 in 2011).  Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, Vol 24 No. 21.  We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera.  

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.fujifilm.co.jp/news_r/nrj024.html&prev=search

FUJI DC-X IMAGE CAPTURE CAMERA - 1992.   The DC-X was a higher resolution version of the HC-1000.  It used three CCD chips and was controlled from a small box with a separate control panel.   A separate video output port enabled linking to a video display to check the image and focus.  We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera.

Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, Vol 24 No. 21.

 INTERNET PHOTO BROWSER - 1992.  The National Center for Supercomputing Applications released Mosaic, the first browser enabling users to view photographs over the web.  The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), is a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

http://en.wikipedi.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29

KODAK DCS 200 - 1992.   The DCS 200 had a built-in hard drive for image recording.  On sale from 1992 to 1994, it was based on the Nikon N8008s.  There were five variants of the DCS200: DCS 200 ci (color and integrated hard disk), DCS 200 c (color without internal hard disk), DCS 200 mi (black and white and integrated hard disk), DCS 200 m (black and white without internal hard disk) and the 'Wheelcam' (color by a triple green red and blue exposures).  Resolution with the Kodak DCS 200 Digital camera was 1.54 million pixels, providing four times the resolution of still-video cameras at that time. Kodak's fully digital systems used a Nikon body and optics to capture the image. The image was then transferred to a CCD that converted the image directly into digital information. The CCD in the Kodak DCS camera system only used a small portion of the angle of view compared to conventional cameras; for example, a 28mm lens on the Kodak DCS Digital Camera was equivalent to an 80mm lens on a 35mm camera.  The exposure index (EI) of the DCS camera equated to 50 to 400 IS0 for color images and 100 to 800 IS0 for black-and-white images .  Kodak also made a special version of the DSC 200 called the High Speed Target Camera for use in parks to take photographs of visitors while they are on park rides.   We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera.

http://apphotnum.free.fr/N2BE10.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DCS

KODAK DM3 and DC3 SYSTEMS - 1992.  Included the DM3, DM3/B, DM3/32, DC3, DC3/B, and DC3/32.  1280 x 1024 CCD.  ISO for each digital system was either 200 to 1600 or 400 to 3200.  Shutter 1/8 to 1/2000 second.  These systems used an external modem and accessory keyboard to transmit images.  Image compression allowed the storage of 400-600 photos.  Pixel Photography, Robert McMahan, 1993, p88.  Click on image to see enlarged view.  We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DCS_100

KODAK DCS 200 HS Target Camera- 1992. 

http://apphotnum.free.fr/N2BE10.html

https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/cameras/item/dcs-200-hs

LOGITECH Fotoman Plus (See Dycam Model 3 above)  - 1992.  24 bit color (when using an optional color filter system) or gray scale.   495 x 366 pixel CCD.  ASA 200.  Shutter 1/30 to 1/2000 second.  Fixed-focus lens.  Internal storage up to 32 photos.  MSRP $695.  We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera.

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Logitech

MINOLTA MS-C 1100  - 1992.   1/2 inch CCD, 360K pixels. ISO 100-200. Shutter 1/2 sec - 1/2000 sec and bulb. Required the use of Minolta DAT recorder MS-R 1100 as the camera had no independent recording ability. 12,000DM in Germany. Not sold in U.S. Photo-Electronic Imaging, October 1992, page 50. 

http://www.mhohner.de/sony-minolta/onebody/ms-c1100

 http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Template:Minolta_AF_mount_DSLRs

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Minolta_Dynax_SPxi

https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/cameras/item/minolta-ms-c1100

PCMCIA ATA (PC) Cards, Type II - 1992.  SanDisk launched its PCMCIA card in October 1992. The company was the first to introduce a writeable Flash RAM card for the HP 95LX (the first MS-DOS pocket computer). These cards conformed to a supplemental PCMCIA-ATA standard that allowed them to appear as more conventional IDE hard drives to the 95LX or a PC.

https://madpcb.com/glossary/pc-card/

https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/memorycards

RICOH DC-10 - 1992.   Prototype memory card camera.  Popular Photography, May 1992, p52.  We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera.

https://books.google.com/books?id=7L3Pjf2Epz8C&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=RICOH+%2B+%22DC-10%22&source=bl&ots=MlLLL_yqQ4&sig=NA1VuC6JyvzPmHYZ_aknDOuCZtQ&hl

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https://books.google.com/books?id=eOsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=RICOH+%2B+%22DC-10%22&source=bl&ots=TSZVQyszdQ&sig=mu87JV0yVi7C6JaC_dYQKZt3yko&hl=en&sa=

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SONY MZ-1 - 1992.  In 1992, Sony marketed the first MD (MiniDisc) portable player.  The MZ-1 could record for up to 74 minutes, although 80 minute discs would appear later. Recordings could be made from a microphone, an analogue line-level source and from a digital source via an optical cable. Once made, recordings could be divided, combined, deleted and named.  The MZ-1 used a lossy auto data reduction scheme called ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding).  Musicians liked MiniDiscs because they were small, digital, portable and recordable, so you could easily record, copy and carry demos in that format.  MP3 players basically made the MZ-1 obsolete and in 2013 Sony discontinued sale of the MZ-1.   MSRP $750.

https://walkmancentral.com/products/mz-1

https://www.minidisc.wiki/equipment/sony/portable/mz-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzQlKdjCHak

SONY ProMavica MVC-7000 - 1992.    Professional SLR, 3 CCD chip still video camera.  The MVC-7000 accepted lenses designed for Nikon or Canon bayonet mounts.  It had through-the-lens (TTL) viewing, a hot shoe, choice of center weighted or spot metering, and variable ISO.  An 8mm to 48mm zoom lens was standard.   MSRP $8000.  We believe we were the first digital camera history web site to provide a photo and information concerning this camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica

SONY MVR-5600 - 1992.    Still video recorder that would be used to record and playback images taken with the MVC-7000 or other still video cameras.  As of June 2018, various models of Sony MVR still video recorders appear frequently on eBay, usually in excellent condition.

SONY CCD-VX1 - 1992.    World's first 8mm video camera with three CCDs, one for each primary color.

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