Kodak ups digital camera ante
Two high-resolution cameras come with advanced connection technology and cost less than $1,000.
With its new offering, Kodak appears to have addressed two of the complaints that have dogged consumer-level digital cameras: poor picture quality and the unwieldy process of downloading and "developing" the images.
The Kodak Digital Science DC260 offers 1.6 million pixels per image for $999, the highest resolution available today in a consumer digital camera. Kodak's new cameras are also the first to download images via the Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection.
"Every time Kodak comes out with a new top of the line, it always seems to one up everyone else," said Carl Holec, an imaging analyst for market research firm ARS. "This equals or bests anything that anyone has on the market right now."
"Anything that makes it easier to get images into the computer is a good thing," opined Bruce Chizen, general manager of digital imaging for Adobe, whose PhotoDeluxe and PageMill software is bundled with the Kodak DC260 and DC220. "Hooking up a camera to a computer can be very challenging."