March 2000 news archive
Thursday, 30 March 2000
OK,
this time the guys are really gonna blow us all away because they've posted
a comparison of the latest and hottest digicams, not only that but they've
used the PIMA / ISO 12233 standard digital camera resolution test chart...
an excellent way to directly compare the resolution of digicams. My best
picks were the Sony S70, Nikon Coolpix 990, Olympus C-3030Z and Canon PowerShot
S20. (04:00 GMT)Nikon, happy with the sucess of Altamira's Genuine Fractals
with their Coolscan 2000 (LS2000) and Coolscan III (LS30) have decided
to bundle the product with their upcoming Coolpix 990 digital camera.
The press release states:
"The Coolpix 990 CCD captures 3.34 megapixels or
9 MB of true noninterpolated image resolution at 2048 x 1536 pixels, which
would produce an 8x10 inch print at 200 dpi. The Altamira Genuine Fractals
2.0 LE software included in the bundle enables... ...a 20x27 inch print
without compromising image quality. " (04:00 GMT)
Tuesday, 28 March 2000
Fuji's
FinePix 4700 caused quite a stir when it was announced, not least of which
because of the 4.3 megapixel label. Since then we've cut through the marketing
hyperbole to the 2.4 megapixel truth of it. In our review we've gone into
quite some detail to test the camera, see inside for more... (04:00 GMT)Monday, 27 March 2000
Mike
Rubin (AKA "Nikon Mike"), Coolpix product manager at Nikon will
be making an appearance on DPReview's Nikon Talk forum next Tuesday
4th April. From now until 3rd April you'll be able to direct questions
to Mike by prefixing your message subject with "NIKON - " and
posting on Nikon Talk. On 4th April Mike will try to answer as many of
those questions as possible. (04:00 GMT)Thursday, 23 March 2000
This
story popped up on Reuters earlier, and reports that Kodak are aiming at
digital cameras that are easy-to-use and can deliver 4x6 and 5x7 prints
(2.1+ megapixel surely). To my eyes it's about time Kodak did something
and came out with some new product. We've seen nothing new from them for
over six months and even their top of the range consumer digicam the DC290
was just a spruced up version of the old DC260... (04:00 GMT)
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