Top secret Kodak/Nikon Navy SEAL camera

When this photo was released in 1998 with this caption, "980608-N-3236B-003 NAVAL AIR BASE CORONADO, California (June 8, 1998) — Navy SEALs attached to SEAL Team One, Naval Air Base Coronado, CA, conducts training using the Nikon/Kodak DCS 425 underwater digital camera which can send real time digital images to decision makers, and an LPI LPD tracking device uses brevity codes to send both mission status and precise longitude/latitude. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer Mate 2nd Class Ted Banks. (RELEASED) ", it caused quite a stir in the photography world as no known camera existed at the time. Then nothing more was heard of it until 2005. Jarle Aasland of Nikonweb discovered in May 2005, the existence of a secret, digital Nikonos underwater camera, A list of all Nikon based DCS cameras was posted in the vintage Kodak DSLR forum on NikonWeb.com. He was quick to note the existence of 3 under the radar models: DCS 425c-1996-Jun-01-1012x1524 Bay RGB-100-400 Nikonos RS DCS 425ir-1996-Jun-01-1012x1524 IR-200-800 Nikonos RSDCS 435-1997-Feb-01-1012x1268 Bay RGB-200-1000-Nikonos RS

If this is the digital camera used by the SEALs in 1998, can you imagine what they are using now, back then this digital camera was 12 years ahead of anything comparable in the civilian marketplace.