Olympus Deltis VC-1100 II (1995)

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As mentioned elsewhere on this site, Olympus used it's computer media label Deltis to market some business digital cameras. The VC-1100 II here is the same camera as the VC-1100 except with a lower price tag and faster image transmission capabilities.

The Olympus Deltis VC-1100 was available in four editions and came out in June of 1994. The VC-1100 as it was initially marketed at the full price of $3,000. The VC-1100 II which had a reduced price tag of $2,200 and faster image transmission capabilities. The VC-1100 II HS which had an ever higher transmission rate of 9600 baud and the very peculiar VC-1100 II HS PV that featured a PC-VAN autopilot function. I could not find out what that means.

The camera featured an LCD electronic viewfinder instead of a large LCD screen. Built-in flash and zoom lens. It used PCMCIA cards Type I to store images as J6I files. Conversion to BMP and TIFF was also possible. Transmission of a 64KB file took 5 minutes which was a rather poor result.