Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital: OFF-TOPIC
From: Five Senses Productions <fls@5senses.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:10:00 -0700

Do you think it passes standards 3 and 5?

At 04:06 PM 6/22/98 , you wrote:
>At 02:58 PM 22-06-98 -0700, Francesco wrote:
>>I would consider a digital camera IF and only IF:
>>
>>1.  It were feasibly portable and not too big
>>2.  It could work with a laptop as a field camera for outdoor use
>>3.  It produced STUNNING images, AT LEAST as good as the 
>>     ones I get from scanning Leica chromes onto PhotoCD
>>4.  It had a recycle time under a minute
>>5.  On the computer screen, an image created with it could not be
>>     told apart from a high-res PhotoCD image
>>
>
>Kodak has announced the DC260, a (roughly) 1500x1000 pixel camera that they
>claim can produce photo quality output on 8x10 paper.  At 240 dpi, it
>should be capable of that.  Camera even has a PC socket for flash, unusual
>for low end digital cameras.  Street price is supposed to be about $800 U.S.
>
>Dan C.
>