Last
year Kodak found themselves playing catch-up to the new league of 2 megapixel
digicams. What was their reaction? The DC265, an excellent digital camera
in its own right, but really what the DC260 should have been when it was
first released, most peoples disappointment was no increase in resolution
and no major improvement in image quality.
And so comes the DC290, based around that tried and tested
body, Digita operating system and scripting engine, optics and overall
control layout.
Changes (apart from the upgrade to a 2.1 megapixel CCD)
are the long-awaited uncompressed TIFF format for images, slightly faster
image processing, a new rubberised case back and handgrip, longer exposures
(built-in up to 16 seconds) and a slightly larger 20MB CompactFlash card.
One
thing that caught most people's eye about the DC290 is the big "3.3
megapixels" sticker splashed across the front corner of the box (and
most press releases)… Very slightly misleading I'd say. Essentially
the DC290 brings a new in-camera interpolation "ultra" mode
which produces a higher resolution image by stretching the original 2.1
megapixel image to 3.3 megapixels (1792 x 1200 to 2240 x 1500 or 1.25
x increase). I'll cover this in more detail later in the review, but there
are actually some advantages to doing this in-camera. At normal shooting
resolution Kodak have stuck (roughly) with the 3:2 image ratio of 35mm
film so you get a few more pixels horizontally (192 actually) than other
2+ megapixel digicams.
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Last
year Kodak found themselves playing catch-up to the new league of 2 megapixel
digicams. What was their reaction? The DC265, an excellent digital camera
in its own right, but really what the DC260 should have been when it was
first released, most peoples disappointment was no increase in resolution
and no major improvement in image quality.
One
thing that caught most people's eye about the DC290 is the big "3.3
megapixels" sticker splashed across the front corner of the box (and
most press releases)… Very slightly misleading I'd say. Essentially
the DC290 brings a new in-camera interpolation "ultra" mode
which produces a higher resolution image by stretching the original 2.1
megapixel image to 3.3 megapixels (1792 x 1200 to 2240 x 1500 or 1.25
x increase). I'll cover this in more detail later in the review, but there
are actually some advantages to doing this in-camera. At normal shooting
resolution Kodak have stuck (roughly) with the 3:2 image ratio of 35mm
film so you get a few more pixels horizontally (192 actually) than other
2+ megapixel digicams.
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