{"id":16899,"date":"2020-03-10T05:15:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T09:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=16899"},"modified":"2020-03-08T23:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T03:00:38","slug":"a-kodak-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-kodak-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"a Kodak moment &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16905\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/440px-Digitalback_dcs420_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16905\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16905\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/440px-Digitalback_dcs420_02-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kodak digital back and sensor for a Nikon N90s<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Kodak produced a series of professional digital cameras in its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kodak_DCS\">Digital Camera System (DCS)<\/a> using \u00a0a Kodak sensor and electronics plus a Nikon \u00a0or Canon film camera. My friend John Linsky called me the other day (which resulted in this post). He had a weird <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Kodak_DCS_460.jpg\">Nikon with a Kodak<\/a> badged thing hanging below the camera. The Nikon was an N90s on top of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kodak_DCS_400_series\">Kodak DCS 400<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The camera was very expensive in the 1990s and was intended for professional photographers working for \u00a0major newspapers or newswires. The paltry resolution of the Kodak sensor was offset by the speedy transmission to the newspaper or wire service without need for film processing. Back then, newspapers were mainly black and white documents. They used the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halftone\">halftone<\/a> process of the day which made the 1.5 or so megapixel images more than adequate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Kodak produced a series of professional digital cameras in its Digital Camera System (DCS) using \u00a0a Kodak sensor and electronics plus a Nikon \u00a0or Canon film camera. My friend John Linsky called me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-kodak-moment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[105,3035,3034,21,216],"class_list":["post-16899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-digital","tag-half-tone","tag-halftone","tag-kodak","tag-nikon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16899"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16909,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16899\/revisions\/16909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}