With the casualty of the Kodak Professional DCS 520 Digital Camera, Eastman Kodak Co., force union with Canon U.S.A. Inc., offers imaging pros the elite camera that combines preferable conceit repute with a below 200-to-1600 ISO range, a screamin' 3.5-frames-per-second crowd rate and powerful in-camera software tools.
Incorporating a bounteous CCD developed by Kodak that captures a 1,168-by-1,728-pixel image, the $14,995 DCS 520 (also sold by Canon now the EOS-D2000) is based on Canon's EOS1-N frame further is competent to account exhaustive EOS-compatible Canon lenses. It captures 32-bit images (12 bits per color), buffering a utmost of 12 images before writing them to its PC Card-based storage system. Although no PC Card ships with the DCS 520, a universal 340-Mbyte Type III card can hold up to 199 1.7-Mbyte compressed images, which decompress to 6 Mbytes each when downloaded.
