8 "Japanese Historical Cameras" of 2002 Named

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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.

Release Date	Name of Camera	Company Name	Model	Photosensitive Material	Frame Size	Price in Japanese Yen (excluding tax)	Characteristics
Film cameras chosen for "Japanese Historical Cameras" of 2002 (3 models)
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	CompactFlash^TM / MicroDrive^TM	6.29 million	800,000	World's first digital camera featuring a CCD having the same size of a 135 film format (24x36 mm).
2002-06-21	FUJIFILM FinePix S2 Pro	Fuji Photo Film Co.,Ltd.	Single-lens reflex	SmartMedia / CompactFlash^TM / MicroDrive^TM	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	CompactFlash^TM / MicroDrive^TM	3.43 million	200,000	A digital SLR camera featuring a "Foveon^(r) X3^TM image sensor" arranging a stack of three photodetectors of R, G and B.
2002-12-07	Canon EOS-1DS	Canon Inc.	Single-lens reflex	CompactFlash^TM / MicroDrive^TM	11.10 million	Open price	A digital camera featuring a CCD having the same size of a 135 film format (24x36 mm).