If you wanted a Kodak brand digital camera in 1996, exactly 30 years ago.
You already had four choices available to you.
First, the small Kodak DC20 with a 180,000 pixel sensor (493x373), Internal storage: 1MB
This was my first digital camera.
$350 US upon release
Or its big brother, the Kodak DC25, the first to be able to use CF (CompactFlash)
Also with an 180,000 pixel sensor (493x373) and 2MB of internal storage and a flash
Approximately $500 US
And the most sophisticated compact camera in 1996, the famous Kodak DC50
With a 380,000 pixel sensor (756x504)
Storage: 1MB Internal & PCMCIA
Price around $960 US
And finally the fourth, definitively inaccessible for the vast majority of us.
The famous Kodak AP NC 2000e Pro with a 1.28 MP sensor (1268x1012)
And that you could get for the modest sum of $15,000 US in 1996!
It was obviously a superb digital camera for its time.
A collaboration between Kodak and Associated Press (AP) for photojournalism.
I finally acquired this camera ten years later in 2006 for $320 US
And I had fun making comparisons with other cameras of the same caliber.
You can see my three comparisons right here, if you're interested.
Kodak DCS 200 (1992) / Kodak AP NC2000e Pro (1996)
www.flickr.com/photos/maoby/albums/72157711652883367
Kodak-Canon EOS-1n DCS 3c (1995) / Kodak AP NC2000e Pro (1996)
www.flickr.com/photos/maoby/albums/72157712429110587
Kodak AP NC2000e Pro (1996) / Kodak DCS 620x (2000)
www.flickr.com/photos/maoby/albums/72157711537022893
I've always had a soft spot for the Kodak brand. 😍
