On 1 Dec 2003 at 13:31, Henry Posner wrote:

> At 05:03 AM 11/29/2003 +0100, EOS-Digest wrote:
> >Anyone ever heard about this one before?
> >Color Infrared digicam from Kodak, with Nikon mount? (pre-1994 era
> >IIRC).
> 
> No, but at the recent photo show in NYC I did see a contemporary Canon
> digital SLR modified for IR by one of their techies. It's a
> one-of-a-kind piece and he wouldn't give it to me even though I lied
> about my birthday. 

:))

It's actually a quite interesting market-gap currently....while 
several digicam's (more non-SLR than SLR) seem capable of nice b&w IR 
images, none can do color IR in one shot.
And that's for a market that isn't squirmish for paying high-dollar 
prices (at the current pricelevel of digicam's, even doubling prices 
for modification would be eagerly accepted).

Was that Canon monochrome IR or color IR?
The latter is what makes things interesting for the geo/aerial 
market....it's also the market that stimulated the inclusion of GPS-
data for the same range of camera's.

Also note a more general market gap, 'filmspeed' up to 6400 ASA with 
both (ordinary) monochrome and monochrome-IR, which both Canon DCS 3m 
and 3ir had....
(same for the equivalent Nikon DCS 420/460)

Here a few URL's I have rescued from oblivion:

http://www.eomonline.com/Common/Archives/June95/airborne.htm

http://www.whittlespublishing.com/pdf/das.pdf

<http://www.kodak.com/cgi-
bin/webCatalog.pl?section=&cc=US&lc=en&product=KODAK+Professional+DCS+
IR+Digital+Cameras>

<http://www.geoinformatics.com/issueonline/issues/1999/04_05_1999/pdf_
04_05_1999/art_7_3.pdf>


Very sad state of information about these camera's....
(Kodak should be ashamed for having pulled all their abundant info 
about these old DCS-cameras....I have nearly a dozen old links that 
lead to nowhere anymore....:((

Btw, both Kodak/Nikon DCS 200 CIR & DCS 420 CIR are much less 
desirable, since they have the same very small CCD-size as the 
Kodak/Canon DCS 5.
(info about the latter is also pretty scarce everywhere, even the 
Canon museum ignores it)

And even the WayBackMachine is no help here, apparently Kodak blocked 
access to search-engines back then....:((

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php


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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink

      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand

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