9 “Japanese Historical Cameras” of 2001 Named
The Historical Camera Committee (Chairperson – Ms. MORIYAMA, Mayumi), a review group established within the Japan Camera Industry Institute, has selected the nine cameras below, as “Japanese Historical Cameras” of 2001.
Film cameras chosen for “Japanese Historical Cameras” of 2001 (4 models)
| Release Date | Name of Camera | Company Name | Model | Photosensitive Material | Frame Size | Price in Japanese Yen (excluding tax) |
Characteristics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-02-late | SHARAN Rolleiflex 2.8 F Model | MegaHouse Corporation | Miniature camera (Twin-Lens Reflex) |
Minox film | 8x11mm | 38,000 | Miniature camera based on the 6 x 6 cm Rolleiflex 2.8 F. The world’s first Twin-Lens Reflex camera using Minox film. |
| 2001-04-27 | RICOH GR21 | Ricoh Co, Ltd. | Direct-view finder | 135 | 24x36mm | 138,000 | Compact camera with 21mm wide-angle lens, consisting of nine lenses in six groups, including one aspherical lens. |
| 2001-07-07 | Nikon FM3A | Nikon Corporation | Single-lens reflex | 135 | 24x36mm | 96,000 (Silver), 99,000 (Black) |
Shutter can be controlled mechanically or electronically across entire speed range. |
| 2001-07-07 | MINOLTA Alpha-Sweet II | Minolta Co., Ltd. | Single-lens reflex | 135 | 24x36mm | 67,000 | Modified finder optics and pentamirror layout for smaller design. Shape-memory alloy used in rear-cover lock. |
Digital cameras chosen for “Japanese Historical Cameras” of 2001 (5 models)
| Release Date | Name of Camera | Company Name | Model | Storage Media | Numbers of Effective Pixels | Price in Japanese Yen (excluding tax) |
Characteristics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-06-23 | MINOLTA DiMAGE 7 | Minolta Co., Ltd. | LCD viewfinder | CompactFlashTM | 4.95 million (effective pixels) 2,560 x 1,920 (recording pixels) |
165,000 | Uses a 2/3-inch-type 5.24 million pixel CCD, and 7x zoom lens (equivalent to 28-200mm in 135-film terms) with a large-diameter APO lens, to create 4.95 million effective pixel images. Focusing point can be set to any point in the image. |
| 2001-10-04 | SONY Cyber-shot DSC-F707 | Sony Corporation | LCD viewfinder | MemoryStickTM | 5.02 million (effective pixels) 2,560 x 1,920 (recording pixels) |
Open Price | The Hologram AF projects a laser to obtain a better distance measurement between the subject and the camera in low-light, low-contrast scenes. Auxiliary flash can be used for frame-synched photography in darkness. |
| 2001-11-23 | OLYMPUS CAMEDIA E-20 | Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. | Single-lens reflex | CompactFlashTM, SmartMediaTM 3.3V |
4.95 million (effective pixels) 2,560 x 1,920 (recording pixels) |
220,000 | New CCD supports both progressive and interlaced scan, for photography at up to 1/8,000 sec. (2.5 million effective pixels for progressive scan). |
| 2001-12-13 | Nikon COOLPIX 5000 | Nikon Corporation | Direct-view finder | CompactFlashTM | 4.95 million (effective pixels) 2,560 x 1,920 (recording pixels) |
150,000 | Vari-angle LCD monitor allows photography at many angles (5 million effective pixels). |
| 2001-12-late (scheduled) | Canon EOS-1D | Canon Inc. | Single-lens reflex | CompactFlashTM | 4.15 million (effective pixels) 2,468 x 1,648 (JPEG recording pixels) 2,496 x 1,662 (RAW recording pixels) |
750,000 | Digital single-lens reflex camera with the basic performance of the EOS-1V silver halide camera (2000). Uses a 28.7 x 11.9 mm CCD, and can shoot 21 continuous photographs at 8 frame/sec. (4.15 million effective pixels). |
