The imaging element was an APS-C sensor with a 1.5x crop factor, and a resolution of 1268 x 1012 pixels (1.3 mp).

[1] A typical 260MB PCMCIA card or IBM Microdrive of the period could store 189 images.

The large amount of memory contributed to the then-immense price of the EOS DCS 3, at nearly two million yen.

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