Canon had the first commercial electronic analog still-capablecamera in 1986. It cost $40,000 for the system.

On Friday, September 29, 2017 at 7:04:26 PM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
It had 380,000 pixels. It need to be tethered to big pieces of equipment to work. It did have a fast 11-60mm f/1.2 lens. It had a highly cropped CCD. It was called the RC-701. It took stills from video.

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_RC-701

I read that Kodak built the first digital still camera. Any comments?

Mort Linder

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It had 380,000 pixels. It need to be tethered to big pieces of equipment
to work. It did have a fast 11-60mm f/1.2 lens. It had a highly cropped
CCD. It was called the RC-701. It took stills from video.

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_RC-701

I read that Kodak built the first digital still camera. Any comments?

https://petapixel.com/2010/08/05/the...-camera-by-kod
ak-and-steve-sasson/

On 10/2/2017 10:23 AM, wrote:
On Friday, September 29, 2017 at 7:04:26 PM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
It had 380,000 pixels. It need to be tethered to big pieces of equipment to work. It did have a fast 11-60mm f/1.2 lens. It had a highly cropped CCD. It was called the RC-701. It took stills from video.

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_RC-701

I read that Kodak built the first digital still camera. Any comments?

Mort Linder


IIRC I was thinking of getting a digital back for my F3, and they were
the only company selling them. The price varied from 10 to 25K. I don't
recall the differences, but I felt even the lower priced one was too much.
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PeterN

On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 07:23:55 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, September 29, 2017 at 7:04:26 PM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
It had 380,000 pixels. It need to be tethered to big pieces of equipment to work. It did have a fast 11-60mm f/1.2 lens. It had a highly cropped CCD. It was called the RC-701. It took stills from video.

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_RC-701

I read that Kodak built the first digital still camera. Any comments?

Here is a shot of an early Nikon as modified by Kodak.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wjmi3jbg2e...C6425.jpg?dl=0


The cards in the window appear to attribute the camera to 1983.

I took this in the Paris Museum of 'Arts & Metieres' in 2013. It was
in a glass case surrounded by bright lights. There was no position
from which I could get a shot free of glass reflections.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 10/2/2017 6:44 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 07:23:55 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, September 29, 2017 at 7:04:26 PM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
It had 380,000 pixels. It need to be tethered to big pieces of equipment to work. It did have a fast 11-60mm f/1.2 lens. It had a highly cropped CCD. It was called the RC-701. It took stills from video.

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_RC-701

I read that Kodak built the first digital still camera. Any comments?

Here is a shot of an early Nikon as modified by Kodak.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wjmi3jbg2e...C6425.jpg?dl=0


The cards in the window appear to attribute the camera to 1983.

I took this in the Paris Museum of 'Arts & Metieres' in 2013. It was
in a glass case surrounded by bright lights. There was no position
from which I could get a shot free of glass reflections.

Damn blasts from the past make me want to babble about
the time Bill [Willard Sterling] Boyle popped in to my lab and
said (paraphrased) so what are you working on in here?
~
Ah, but that had little to do with my photography.
~
However, it does (in some obscure way) link me to those
first digital cameras. ;-)
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Later...
Ron C
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