The Canon Ion

This is my CANON RC-560-570– 1992. The RC-560-570 still video camera used a 1-2 inch, 410,000 pixel CCD image sensor and Hi-band specification to produce images with horizontal resolution of 450 TV lines. 3X zoom and integral automatic flash. An optional recording interface daughterboard for the Mac NuBus card could give the additional flexibility of converting digital images to analog and recording them with the camera. This would allow downloading a computer-generated presentation onto a video floppy from Aldus Persuasion or similar package (including photos originally taken by the electronic camera), as a series of video slides. When transferred into the computer, the pictures were digitized into 24-bit color or 8-bit grayscale tiff or pict files. The Canon RC-570 sold for $3,400. The Mac kit (RC-560) with NuBus digitizer board was $4,100 including the camera. Adding the digital-to-analog output daughter board cost $400. The camera plus external video floppy drive package was $5,900 for the Mac; $6,650 for Next; $6,350 for Microchannel computers; and $6,250 for at-bus pcs.
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