Digital cameras cheaper, sharper
Toshiba introduces two new digital cameras, reinforcing how quickly prices are dropping even as picture quality improves.
Toshiba introduced two new digital cameras, offering high-resolution digital imaging at aggressive pricing.
camera prices are dropping even as picture quality and resolution gets better. At the moment, only Kodak markets a camera with better resolution than Toshiba's new 1.5-million pixel PDR-M1, but standards are moving quickly.
Today's announcement reinforces how quickly digital
Toshiba's PDR-M1 and PDR-5 |
"Megapixel" cameras, those with 1-million-pixel resolution or more, from competitors Olympus, Ricoh, and Nikon garnered attention for breaking the $1,000 mark when released, even though many analysts said the price was still too high to grab the attention of the mass market. Now they hover in the $799 to $899 range while their resolution continues to improve.