Pentax EI-C90 (1997)

380,000 pixels sensor (768x560)
The First Consumer Pentax
2mb Internal & PCMCIA card
Modular camera
Price: $900 USD

Pentax EI-C90 (1997) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

My Little History of Digital Compacts

Interesting. Never seen one in person. There is one for sale on Etsy. The early digitals I've used are very hard on AA batteries. So how close is this to being like the Ricoh?
Thanks for sharing,
barondla

I couldn't say for the durability of the batteries.
All digital cameras had a bad reputation in those years.
But the quality of the photos was particularly disastrous for this Pentax!

Pentax EI-C90 (1997) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

Pentax EI-C90 (1997) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

Picture quality is rough. Though it looks great compared to my Nintendo Game Boy camera :). The Pentax looks very similar to the Ricoh RDC-1. Wonder if the two companies were teaming up way back then? Fascinating post.

My oldest real digital camera is an Olympus D-600 3x zoom with 1.4mp and a very compact 2mp Minolta dimage. I need to fire them up.
Thanks for sharing,
barondla

The Olympus D600L was a superb camera for the time, I have its little brother the D500L paid $35.00 in 2005

Olympus D500L (1997) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

You can see the Ricohs here: dprevived.com/t/my-little-history-of-digital-compacts/381/2/ At the bottom of the page.

Thank you!