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Video: The Canon EOS D2000 Had a Built in Pong Game

Chris Gampat
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07/08/2015
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Last Updated on 09/08/2016 by Chris Gampat

Photo by Morio
Photo by Morio

Years ago, Canon created the D2000 DSLR. It was regarded as one of the company’s first really good DSLR entries and also featured a cool easter egg– a Pong Game built into the menus. Why? We’re not exactly sure, but it’s a pretty cool idea!

The camera was a collaboration with Kodak that involved the EOS 1N body and a Kodak digital back holding a 2MP APS-C sensor. For that time that it was released, it was quite a big deal. It was one of the last products that Canon and Kodak created together.

According to some info given to us by Canon’s Chuck Westfall, the Canon EOS D2000/DCS 520 and D6000/DCS 560 were introduced in 1998, and were relatively successful among photojournalists and commercial photographers. Later on in the year though, Canon and Nikon both put out newer cameras that almost left these in the dust.

Fast forward to November 2001, Canon would produce the EOS-1D–the first camera of their made all internally. It sported a weather resistant body and a 4MP CCD sensor along with 8fps shooting abilities. In 2002, the company put out the EOS 1Ds which sported an 11MP full frame CMOS sensor.

I’m sure that no photographer would ever argue with having a pong game in their camera today. It would surely cure some boredom issues in between shooting sessions.

We’ve got a video of the Canon EOS D2000’s pong game after the jump.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.