Post by belgiumreporter on Jun 4, 2016 8:40:18 GMT -5
Here's the story of my second Dslr, a camera that i actually used when it was new and isn't in my collection because i like old Dslr's
It was my second digital Dslr after the kodak NC 2000 wich was based on the nikon F90. I bought it in 2001 and used it as a press camera.
the 2 megapixel CCD imager that produces 1728 x 1152 pixel, 36-bit color, uncompressed TIF images was capable of producing images that where certainly good for newspaper work, i even know of wedding photographers who kept on using the dsc 600 series for a long time as they produced such good whites.40x50 cm quality prints where also in its reach!.
I've choosen it over the nikon D1 because the dcs used a "real" F5 body with interchangable viewfinders, the D1 was basicly a F5 as well but the prism was permanently fixed to the body, today this might not seem like a big deal but back then there was no such thing as live view or swivel LCD's so the DCS at diffrent occasions came in handy with the waist level finder.
The camera is still in my collection and i have good memories of shooting with it, exept for anything over 400 ISO and even 400 was bad!
A funny thing what springs to mind is you had to pay some 800 euro extra (over the 10.000$ body only list price) to get the anti aliasing filter wich was considdered of vital inportance to get good shots, a bit odd if you compare it to the no AA filter thing in the likes of the nikon D810E and a few other high end cameras.
The dcs was capable of shooting at 3Fps wich was faster than anything else in those days, i can't remember it was advertised as a fast action sports camera though :-).
Taking it out of the display cabinet made me want to use it once more just for old times sake, the battery's dead though and i can't remember if i had the mains adapter, and even if i did i can't remember where i left it.The next problem would be the software to read the files, i know i have a Cd "somewhere" but even then it only runs on Win 95 or NT as far as i know.
Still if i get through some boxes in the attick i might be able to bring this "monster" back to live...The camera ireplaced this one with was the kodak DCS 14n( wich i still use occasionally) it was a step back camera wise because it is based on the F80, but the full frame 14Mp sensor did inprove the image quality over the previous models and was the only full frame available back then.
CF cards could be used with a PMCI adapter i did use a 500Mb pcmcia hard drive as well wich was vurnerable because of the moving parts in it.
The AA filter attached with the tiny screws left and right
It was my second digital Dslr after the kodak NC 2000 wich was based on the nikon F90. I bought it in 2001 and used it as a press camera.
the 2 megapixel CCD imager that produces 1728 x 1152 pixel, 36-bit color, uncompressed TIF images was capable of producing images that where certainly good for newspaper work, i even know of wedding photographers who kept on using the dsc 600 series for a long time as they produced such good whites.40x50 cm quality prints where also in its reach!.
I've choosen it over the nikon D1 because the dcs used a "real" F5 body with interchangable viewfinders, the D1 was basicly a F5 as well but the prism was permanently fixed to the body, today this might not seem like a big deal but back then there was no such thing as live view or swivel LCD's so the DCS at diffrent occasions came in handy with the waist level finder.
The camera is still in my collection and i have good memories of shooting with it, exept for anything over 400 ISO and even 400 was bad!
A funny thing what springs to mind is you had to pay some 800 euro extra (over the 10.000$ body only list price) to get the anti aliasing filter wich was considdered of vital inportance to get good shots, a bit odd if you compare it to the no AA filter thing in the likes of the nikon D810E and a few other high end cameras.
The dcs was capable of shooting at 3Fps wich was faster than anything else in those days, i can't remember it was advertised as a fast action sports camera though :-).
Taking it out of the display cabinet made me want to use it once more just for old times sake, the battery's dead though and i can't remember if i had the mains adapter, and even if i did i can't remember where i left it.The next problem would be the software to read the files, i know i have a Cd "somewhere" but even then it only runs on Win 95 or NT as far as i know.
Still if i get through some boxes in the attick i might be able to bring this "monster" back to live...The camera ireplaced this one with was the kodak DCS 14n( wich i still use occasionally) it was a step back camera wise because it is based on the F80, but the full frame 14Mp sensor did inprove the image quality over the previous models and was the only full frame available back then.
CF cards could be used with a PMCI adapter i did use a 500Mb pcmcia hard drive as well wich was vurnerable because of the moving parts in it.
The AA filter attached with the tiny screws left and right
