Fujix DS-1P (1988)

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The development of this prototype is covered in the History section. Please refer to that section for details. Apart from that the camera could store 10 images on a 2MB SRAM card and in the near future it was intended to use a compression method of 1:8 so that up to 40 images could be stored. The original press release states that images could be played back by means of an exclusive player and there was talk of a video printer. Also the camera was able to store voice or sound simultaneously and the camera was referred to as a
'Future Electronic Still Camera'.

Here is what Fujifilm has to say about the DS-1P: Fujifilm DS-1P story

Special thanks to Motokazu Ohkawa and Jarle Aasland for providing documents, pictures and Photokina documents.