Exclusive : Canon EOS D2000

[Geostant]

Doesn't believe me ? :cool:
Check out this screen shot from Canon's website :lol:

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3624/canon6ka.jpg


Assuming that somebody there was so keen to press the zero button and added 2 extras...
And assuming that the same person is a Nikon spy, since he put the D before the number ;)

[Jesper]

The D2000 isn't a new model. In fact, it is a very old model, one of the first DSLRs that Canon made together with Kodak. I think that one of the new features of the latest version of DPP is that it supports even these old cameras.

You can look it up here: Canon DSLR history (http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/series_digi/f_eos.html)

The D2000 is a 2 megapixel DSLR from March 1998. It had 340 MB built-in memory.

[Livinthalife]

well assuming its really old (2mp must be old) to come with 340 mb built in is pretty amazing!

[Geostant]

This is new to me
I didn't knew about this model :)

Original price over $16K... I prefer to buy several 1Ds MK-II instead ;)

[wazmunstr]

its the first dslr canon made (with kodak of course).

[FlashZebra]

its the first dslr canon made (with kodak of course).
Well this camera was not "with Kodak" it was more like "by Kodak".

It was a Canon camera, that after modification became a Kodak digital camera. And Kodak did all the modification.

All the digital technology came from Kodak. For many years Kodak produced the very best digital cameras based on 35mm bodies. They were crude by todays standards, but cutting edge in their time.

Kodak dominated the interchangable lens DSLR market for about 10 years, long before Canon, Nikon, or Fuji even had any offering.

Enjoy! Lon

[Master-9]

What happen?

[CyberDyneSystems]

A few things:

Kodak never had there own system to work with and had to use Canon and in fact more Nikon..

Kodak had so much invested in film (after all they are a film company more than a camera company.. or used to be anyways ) that they either did not want to see digital take over,. or they simply didn't believe it would.

Bottom line,. Kodak kicked things off,. Olympus was another huge pioneer in Digital (though not in SLRs) and oddly,. Minolta was the ONLY System DSLR available from the OEM itself for years,. but not when they were popular,. by the time DSLR's finally became affordable and therefore popular (the EOS D30 ) Minolta had already stopped making there DSLR line... and took years to finally come back into the market (as we know.. far too long and thus they are no longer)

Canon and Nikon truly timed it right...