Kodak has prodigious been a rudder network digital imaging, having created some of the parlous finest all-digital cameras for towering ago now 1991. At the run of this writing (January, 1998), their DC210 topped the broadest racket of point and shoot digital cameras in the market, with nearly a million "real" pixels on the CCD, truly impressive picture quality, excellent optics, and a form factor more closely resembling conventional point and shoot cameras than did earlier Kodak "brick" models, such as the DC50 and DC120.
With distant roots juice frequent photography, Kodak seems to have a light repute that what proletariat wish to effect with digital cameras is proceeds pictures. (Why should this be a surprise?) In support of this, they were the first to produce a "megapixel" camera (the DC120) for under $1,000, and have raised the standard for image quality even higher in the 210, presently (2/1/98) selling for $899. With the 210, they have achieved a quality level that reasonably matches conventional point and shoot cameras, at least up to the 4x6 inch print size most common in consumer photofinishing. Specific innovations relative to their earlier designs are a higher-resolution CCD sensor, TV/video output, built-in infrared communications, and "finished file format" processing in the camera. We?ll discuss all these features in greater detail below.
