Actually, it was labeled as the DCS no number, people started referring
to it as the DSC-100 after the DSC-200 replaced it. It was a whopping
1.3MP camera with, you guessed it, a 1.5x sensor just like your pentax.
Adam Maas wrote:
> Nope,
>
> The first DSLR (Kodak DCS100 based on the F3HP) was introduced
> commercially in 1991.
>
> The first 35mm camera with IS (A Nikon VR P&S, can't recall the model)
> was introduced 3 years later in 1994. Canon IS lenses would show up a
> year later in the form of the craptacular 75-300 IS USM. The first
> really useful IS lens was introduced in 1997 (300 f4L IS USM) and the
> super teles would show up in 1999, same year as Nikon's D1, which began
> the modern era of DSLR's and the end of the early Kodak DSLR era.
>
> Canon's first in-house DSLR, the D30, showed up less than a year after
> the introduction of the full-line of IS Super-Teles. Kodak did make a EF
> mount DSLR prior to that, in fact the Canon mount DCS-1 was introduced
> the same year as the 75-300 IS USM lens(1995).
>
> -Adam
>
>
> J. C. O'Connell wrote:
>> I think you guys are forgetting the fact that Canon introduced
>> IS ("in-lenses") long before DSLRs even existed and you cant even
>> do "in-body" image stabilization with film cameras. So there
>> was NO debate at the time which was better, "in-lenses" was
>> infinately better at the time, because "in-body" was impossible
>> with film cameras. Cut them a little slack, huh?
>> jco
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>> K.Takeshita
>> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:00 AM
>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
>> Subject: Re: Camera based SR vs. lens based IS?
>>
>>
>> On 1/28/07 8:41 AM, "Cory Papenfuss", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think Canon is going to have to eat their hat WRT in-body SR.
>> "Rumour" says that's exactly what Canon is contemplating. Who knows?
>> But it indicates that both methods are toss-up. Canon can no longer
>> charge high price for IS lenses for sure.
>>
>>> They may be able to fake it by making a cheapie kit lens with IS, but
>>> I think the market will desire in-body SR.
>> Again, "rumour" says that this is the approach Nikon is contemplating,
>> i.e., trickling down their VR onto even cheaper lenses.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>
>
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