Unsung Cameras Of Yesteryear: The Kodak NC2000 (Featuring Rob Galbraith)
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- We continue our Unsung Cameras Of Yesteryear series with a look at the first large sensor digital camera designed for photojournalism, the Kodak NC2000. See how far DSLRs have come since 1994, and how this camera stacks up to it's major competition at the time, film!
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Shot and edited by Jordan Drake
Shot on the Sony FS5
This is so much more interesting than just a 'retro gear review'. Adding the interviews with the journalists was a great thing and the stories really bring this alive. Great story, good job.
one has to agree, camerastoreTV blows every other camera review chanel out of the water. In love with your work guys. Plus you make calgary look like the best place to live.
Absolutely. They make the most informative, objective, professional, down-to-earth, and all around most watchable videos. I like other channels too, but when I want a straight-up honest review I come here.
Not digitalrev tho
love the old camera review series
Instablaster...
"Hi, this is Jordan the video guy. This camera has the same video features as the Nikon Df. Thanks."
Hey, I love the video features on my Df.
I know that quote but I can't remember where it came from. Send help.
What I take home from this video is that the Kodak Ektar 100 film is just gorgeous!
This brings back memories. I bought an NC2000e with my own money and used it to convince my newspaper to convert to digital photography. What a great time of my life.
Wow, $17,000 for that camera when it was new. My, how technology flies!
I remember my first little digital compact camera, a 3 megapixel Olympus Stylus around 2003, cost me about $350. Last year I bought a 24 megapixel Sony A6000 for about $400 (open box item at Best Buy! Woot!)
God I love technology advancements!!
Many of the $8000 digital SLRs these days will be worth a couple of hundred on the used market next decade.
160% view finder coverage! Cant get that nowadays haha
It's almost like the SLR version of a Leica rangefinder with framelines.
agogobell28 exactly
+Rodrigo Vazquez sure you can, just shoot your stuff and crop all the images.
***** That's not how this works buddy
Rodrigo Vazquez Of course it is.
Another great video! Thank you, very interesting and nostalgic
This is my favorite series on this channel
Awesome video guys, more like this please!
It was also great to see Rob Galbraith again, I was a big fan and follower of his site from the very beginning. I hope you bring him back again in future videos!
Cheers!
keep these vids comin! so fun to learn about cameras that were made in the past.
That bird at 11:36 ... "What are these humans on about?"
Thanks for sharing - this is a cool series - I started shooting film in the '60s and digital around 2000 (Nikon Coolpix 990) - this brought back fond memories
The purple fire and Christmas light glares are oddly stunning.
Great to see and hear Rob Galbraith :)
I remember having similar conversations with the Magnum photographers when I worked there. Very cool that you are doing this.
As someone who loves both photography gear and obsolete tech, thank you very much for this video! :D
I love this Unsung Cameras of the Yesteryear series!
We just don't know how good we have it these days. Well now we know.lol Thanks for the journey back.
could i suggest a Nikon D1x? I've got 2 of these and some of the images are stunning but the age gap really does tell... loved the video and subscribed
Nice now can we pulleez...pulleez get your fantastic GX80 review!
I saw this...had to watch....remember this. Such an important camera for KODAK. Glad to see KODAK still makes some cameras. I bet people did hate this camera.
Chris, great video. Thank you. Do you remember the Minolta RD-175 in 1995? At the time, it was state-of-the-art.
This is my favorite series on this channel !!
Please make more of these, very cool! Also, would be great to see more old film cameras too.
Realy cool, thank you for doing this series!!
If you're after camera suggestions for the Yesteryear series how about Epson's (brief) foray into interchangeable lens cameras with the R-D1. I actually owned one briefly back in Jan 2005 but traded it in for the much more sensible Canon 20D (the rangefinder patch on the Epson was a touch on the small side for my liking). BTW it used a CCD sensor from 2002. Oh and some people allege it was the first mirrorless camera...
(I don't miss the camera, the 20D was just plain excellent so no regrets, but I sometimes wish I'd kept the Voigtländer lenses.)
Great series! I myself started with the Kodak DCS760 and DCS720X back in 2008 and went backwards over the DCS620X and DCS620 to the DCS420. I'm still using them all. Mostly the X type models with the CMYK "Xena" Sensors. They still do a great job up to around 2000 ISO and the F5 bodies are simply great in speed and handling. Image preview and the overall operation is stunningly fast. I even like them more than my D3 in terms of ergonomics and simplicity.
This video was amazing. Thank you Chris and Jordan!
I remember using the Kodak DCS420 in the mid 90's and we would use a hot mirror filter to alleviate some of the issues you were having with the NC2000.
Seriously this must be the best channel not just on TH-cam but on all forms of media, but only if your into your photography of course, How about some videos on flashes, bags and tripods next?
What a great video, its nice to see some history, ive always wanted to see those titans in action!
this is awesome, hope to see more of this series :)
Loved Rob's website. I miss it really. Good to see him alive and well :)
Radio Control enthusiasts have used self-made external battery packs since the early 2000s in order to fly/race/whatever all day without having to charge the radio controller until they got home.
What a great series! There are so many interesting cameras from the past: Leaf DCB1, Nikon D2h, Olympus E-1, Kodak Dcs 14, Canon D30, just to name a few.
Very interesting video guys...this channel rocks!!
camera rookies would love that rig. the size makes it look uber professional as they'd say
This is awesome ... can't wait to see the next episodes
You guys should review film cameras and how to get into film photography and which films to use to get the best pictures
the images are very good. I bought my first digital camera back in this era. It was a Kodak 1 megapixel. It took beautiful images. Did not have the resolution to make large prints. I loved it from day one... making me much smarter than all these other photographers.
I love these weird old cameras. I have a dcs420 that I use all the time. Sure its nowhere near perfect, but that's what I love about it.
Great vid :) Thanks for the work, guys!
Awesome presentation! Want to see more...
Used one of these when I worked for the Birmingham Post around 1999-2002, as horrible as the video shows. Purple files, blown highlights and slow motorwind, it really was worse then shooting transparency. TTL flash never worked and I lost a lot of confidence in my abilities as a press photographer. Took about 6 months to get used to it. Still never really cracked sport with it, it had delay on the shutter so you had to press the shutter before the action happened, in the wild hope you got the action. Think I got loads of legs on the edge of frames..There was also a massive problem in sending the files back to the office..took forever...Landline at 56k was the superfast option...
Fantastic Video! Thanks For Sharing!
Hey dude this is absolutely perfect keep going!!!!
Nice little birdie spying on you guys at 11:36 :))
One of the old Sigma SD DSLR´s would be interesting, with the crazy blue (if I would be in Canada, I would lend my "like new" SD10 for this).
I own a Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n, and it has a beautiful 13.5MP Full-Frame CMOS sensor, the HDR is great, and gives beautiful detailed pictures. (no need for bracketing and editing to HDR!!) Not a good camera for low light, if you raise the ISO it gets really grainy, but in nice daylight, it's a beautiful camera to use!! Batteries drain fast, and it's pretty slow, but in its time it was a great camera, and still is actually.
Curiously enough this was the first digital camera I ever got my hands on, back in 1995, as a work experience student assisting a department store catalogue shoot. Got to fire off a few frames of folded towels!!! Still, being allowed to use a $12K camera at the age of 15 was a thrill. I wouldn’t see/touch another digital camera until 1998… that was an Apple QuickTake 150, much less impressive! 😂
Great video guys, I love that you guys are looking at these unsung hero cameras that in some form have helped to shape the products and overall photography industry today. Shows the progress that the field of photography has experienced, and also funny that people still complain in regards to image quality still these day's especially considering where it all started, and how revolutionary it was and still is in interconnecting people from all over the world.
Really excited to be apart of the contest for the beautiful Fujifilm s5 pro, I've always wanted to play around with one as the colours produced from fuji's sensor is so unique, and has in a way an indescribable beauty. others can take a look at various image samples on flickr.
also on a side note the Link to the google form isn't working as also noted by other viewers.
+Gavin Balderson The link is fixed, good luck in the contest!
kodak ektar 100 is awesome film
Ektar 24 for sunsets..... drool.....
I shot with the NC2000 and NC2000e (the “e” was the slightly improved version) I recall the camera bodies costing around $16,000 apiece. The quality was as horrible as the battery. At the time we were shooting color negatives and scanning them into our Macintosh with a Kodak Rapid Film Scanner. (Such as the RFS 3570) In addition to the PCMCIA cards and card readers that used SCSI ports, it only produced their own version of a RAW file (no jpegs) and required a special Photoshop plug-in to read them as Photoshop didn't recognize the file format on its own. Part of the cost was that it came with support from AP at big events. Something I found to be worthless when at the Oscars one year, the camera stoped working. The AP repair/representative said that the computer board inside the camera came loose and said that was a common problem with that camera. I asked him if he could fix it and he said sure, but he didn’t have the tool to get into the camera. So we were on our own and had to come up with an emergency backup plan to shoot the Academy Awards that year with film.
No one on staff liked using that camera and it sat in the pool locker for most of the year.
Awesome video! Very educational, but also fun :D
I just picked up a F90x and it's a great film body especially for manual focus. 20 years from now I will be shooting it and my other film cameras, but my DSLR will be useless. nice video
Hey guys - great video :)
I found very recently old MInolta XG7 and started shooting film a bit - really rewarding experience,I must add :)
Any chance of doing that review as well?
Also may a comprehensive video about films for us younger photographers junst to see difference from film to film to see which one we could try :)
thanks
This is the best episode ever
Entertaining and informative - keep 'em coming!
I'm liking these videos guys, keep it up!
Love this analog series. You guys should teach a class yourselves!
+Simi Not analogue - old digitals. I think you are getting your YT channels confused :-)
Great informative video! I also really enjoyed the one on the s5pro as it was my main camera and is my backup since i moved to d610. Just was wondering will any of the "throwback" videos go back to film cameras? As a collector and frequent user of vintage cameras I would love to see that! Keep up the good work!
Film cameras are in the queue, we just wanted to jump on the NC2000 while it was still running. Good film cameras keep going forever!
Jordan @ TCSTV
That Lexus at 5:23, love it.
love the stories from the photographers
Hello favorite camera channel, is the Panasonic GX85 coming your way?
Can you "review" the Sony Mavica. My first digital camera wrote to 3.5 inch floppy disks. It was useless for anything else than the stop motion I used it for.
OMG those pics made me think of the ones in my middle school text books
Definitely liking the retrospective. If nothing else, it's a great reminder of how quickly we've progressed and what we take for granted now. Maybe I'll go take my Canon 350D along with my Nikon D800E next time I go out. Or my Canon S110.... No, not that one, the 2001 Digital Elph.
i'm quite impressed with the image quality
This is so interesting well done guys.
i wish fuji have something with this styling. will be v nostalgic
Great! Brings back some memories! :-)
Please more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more classic cameras review!
Hi guys !! I am learning Photography !! Using my beloved deceased brothers Fiji S5 !! He shot my wedding in Bali 2007 and passed 2008 !! I haven't really used his gear as so complicated! I have a new Nikon ! But want to use his camera
Awesome episode!
a good video like the old camera for my collection
best series to date
Great video. I would love to own that camera. I like the colours.
I started with a Canon AE1 in 1980. My first digital camera was a Canon IDs Mark ll.
I used to have Kodak dcs 520, loved it ;] my first dslr
@Jordan , What was all that flickering about, from a technical point of view. It shows up again at 4:07.
Nice video though! :) Keep the good work, guys!
+Felipe Sandoval We haven't been able to duplicate the issue, so we don't know for sure what caused it. I suspect it might have something to do with the electronic ND filter on the Sony FS5.
Jordan @ TCSTV
I saved a Kodak DCS years ago from the studio trash only to throw it in the bin years later. I'll never miss CCD DSLRs.
I remember seeing the NC2000 at the mall for Santa photos. Hoping the D2000/DCS520 is in the pipeline.
Absolutely love this series and you guys went above and beyond! These frankencameras are insane, but a similar concept with modern technology turning k1000's into basic k1's? Nikon F's into d...nevermind, it won't work.
At the time photojournalists were shooting the F4, F5, EOS 3, Minolta Dynax 9 (and the models below such as the F90X, EOS 3 or the Dynax 7) ... the time of the FM, FE, FA Nikons was long gone when this Kodak NC2000 came to market.
+Photoandcargeek Yes but as the contest involves seeing a vintage camera of our choosing and because I hadn't shot my old camera in awhile you get what we showed. Your right though, the EOS 3, F4, F5, Dynax 9, all dominated the market. Still I bet many photojournalists in 1994 were still rocking Nikon FMs, T90s, Pentax LXs, for certain situations.
Chris @ TCSTV
Yes, pro photographers still used old manual cameras such as the FMs in the 90s but not really for work as the then modern cameras where better in every possible way except if you were shooting where batteries wouldn't work well like in the polar circle for example .... or except if you were Bill Cunningham who until very recently was still shooting a Nikon FM! But even Cunningham recently switched to AF and digital! I don't dislike these cameras, I actually love them and own a lot of these retro and not so retro film cameras that I have used over the years as a photographer or for family use (FM, Leica M6 ...) and, beauty of film photography, is that well calibrated and used properly these retro cameras will produce the exact image quality as an EOS 1V or an F5. On top of that retro cameras are fun to use because they make you think and slow down although I still love using my F5 or EOS 3 too but that is close to the digital experience in the sense that they do the job as well or better than you if you let them. My point was just that pro had stopped using them a long long long time ago and now they are back thanks to hipsters... thanks to them the second hand value of my gear has risen from almost 0 to not much but some money!
omg, this was the geekiest coolest video. Loved it! This is a great series. (as I show my age)
Interesting..I wish you guys would do the Olympus E1
I still shoot film and the Nikon N90s / F90x is my favorite camera. I bought one last month for $40 in mint condition. No need to pay hundreds for an F100 or F5.
Was waiting the whole episode to hear Jordan's thoughts on the video capabilities. Way to forget that part, guys.
I am convinced about my camera now!
Is the contest still open?
I understood that those cameras were F series 35mm film cameras converted to digital. Not sure though. They were around $5k at the time so I later bought an Olympus E-10 which was much better at 4.1 megapixels but it ate AA batteries. Still have it.
Rob Galbraith, Ladies and Gentlemen!!!
it would be interesting to see a comparison between this and canons first digital slr, just to see how things progressed in that short time span (like the d2000 or 1d)
Amazing video!
Fascinating
Pleeeease make an episode about the Olympus E-1 ☺
Great review, really interesting, thanks.
Strrrrrrrrrrrrrrangely entertaining :)