Canon Camera Museum lets you take a trip down memory lane
If you’re a nut for the history of cameras and want to get a sense of nostalgia, you may want to check out the Canon Camera Museum. It’s probably the most extensive collection of information of “older” digital SLRs. For example, the EOS DCS 3 sported an amazing 1.3 mega-pixel picture in 1995 and featured a 260 MB hard drive disk. That’s more dated than bell-bottoms and 8-tracks.You can make this journey through time here, just make sure you don’t get stuck back there, because after reading some of the camera descriptions, it’s a pretty fair conclusion that being a photographer using digital cameras back in the mid to late 90s was a hard life.“Based on the top-of-the-line EOS-1N, the EOS DCS 3 digital camera was developed with a high density area CCD containing 1.3 mega-pixels. The large, 16 MB buffer memory enables high-speed continuous shooting at 2.7 fps in 12-frame bursts. Also, by using the camera’s 260 MB hard disk card, about 189 large size frames can be filed.”If that doesn’t get the hairs on the back of your neck tingling in anxiety, check this out…“Major specifications of the D30 include three selectable focusing points, multiple shooting modes including five easy-to-use Image Select modes, 35-zone Evaluative metering, built-in retractable flash with E-TTL capability, an EOS system first, and continuous photography at approximately 3fps for up to eight frames (Large/Fine).” Please, go enjoy this and then give praise that technology actually improves over time.
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