8 “Japanese Historical Cameras” of 2002 Named
The Historical Camera Committee (Chairperson – Ms. MORIYAMA, Mayumi), a review group established within the Japan Camera Industry Institute, has selected the eight cameras below, as “Japanese Historical Cameras” of 2002.
Film cameras chosen for “Japanese Historical Cameras” of 2002 (3 models)
| Release Date | Name of Camera | Company Name | Model | Photosensitive Material | Frame Size | Price in Japanese Yen (excluding tax) |
Characteristics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-02-22 | MINOLTA Capios 160A | Minolta Co., Ltd. | Direct-view finder | 135 | 24x36mm | 57,000 | Compact camera featuring world’s first AREAR-AF having a “subject detection function” (shape recognition) that detects the point of focus with up to 195-divided areas by 7 CCD line-sensors locating within the focus frame. |
| 2002-03-01 | Canon Autoboy 155 | Canon Inc. | Direct-view finder | 135 | 24x36mm | 43,000 | World’s first camera featuring a CMOS censor integrating both AF and AE in a body. |
| 2002-12-05 | PENTAX ESPIO 24EW | PENTAX Corporation | Direct-view finder | 135 | 24x36mm | 56,000 | Compact camera covering a wide-angle of 24 mm. It has a 4.4x zoom covering 24 -105 mm. |
Digital cameras chosen for “Japanese Historical Cameras” of 2002 (5 models)
| Release Date | Name of Camera | Company Name | Model | Storage Media | Numbers of Effective Pixels | Price in Japanese Yen (excluding tax) |
Characteristics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-02-26 | MINOLTA DiMAGE X | Minolta Co., Ltd. | LCD viewfinder | SD Card / MM Card | 1.96 million | 72,000 | Thickness of 20 mm is accomplished by using a prism in a zoom lens (arranging a prism in a first group of the zoom lens), folding the optical axis by 90 degree, and forming an image on CCD locating in the bottom of the camera. |
| 2002-05-29 | CONTAX N DIGITAL | Kyocera Corporation | Single-lens reflex | CompactFlashTM / MicroDriveTM | 6.29 million | 800,000 | World’s first digital camera featuring a CCD having the same size of a 135 film format (24×36 mm). |
| 2002-06-21 | FUJIFILM FinePix S2 Pro | Fuji Photo Film Co.,Ltd. | Single-lens reflex | SmartMedia / CompactFlashTM / MicroDriveTM | 6.17 million | 310,000 | An interchangeable lens type digital SLR camera featuring a super CCD honeycomb III with 6.17 million effective pixels delivering an 12.12 million recording pixels. |
| 2002-10-26 | SIGMA SD9 | SIGMA Corporation | Single-lens reflex | CompactFlashTM / MicroDriveTM | 3.43 million | 200,000 | A digital SLR camera featuring a “Foveon(r) X3TM image sensor” arranging a stack of three photodetectors of R, G and B. |
| 2002-12-07 | Canon EOS-1DS | Canon Inc. | Single-lens reflex | CompactFlashTM / MicroDriveTM | 11.10 million | Open price | A digital camera featuring a CCD having the same size of a 135 film format (24×36 mm). |
