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...foreseeable future, as the 10% growth in unit sales will translate into only a 2.2% boost in revenue, to $33.3 billion, after which industry sales will drop 2.6% to $32.5 billion in 2007. The strain of a shrinking market has already forced at least three notable vendors out - Konica Minolta exited last spring, selling patents and assets to Sony. Kyocera shuttered its camera business in 2005, two decades after entering the photography market by buying Japan's venerable Yashica Camera Co. and its Contax brand. And Toshiba all but stepped away in 2004. How, then, are other digital-camera vendors...
...photographer views through the finder. Canon and Nikon, both strong slr players from the analog days, are leading the charge. Sony, too, is moving for the first time into dslrs with its Alpha dslr A100, which hit the market in July. The camera uses slr technology Sony acquired from Konica Minolta, and is selling for around $1,000, lens included. Companies think the dslr will whet the appetites of gadget lovers who will eat up higher-margin aftermarket treats, like lenses, flashes and cases. Sony, for one, offers 21 lenses for its new Alpha. Skeptics say that dslrs...
...film requires no threading, the cameras can be very compact. They take pictures in three sizes and replace negatives with a single contact sheet that displays thumbnail images of an entire roll at a glance. So I decided to put three brand-new models from Canon, Konica and Minolta to the test. My bar: they had to be sleek and light and come with a 2X zoom...
That left the winter-green Konica Revio as my favorite, until I noticed that you can't operate the self-timer with any special settings like red-eye reduction, landscape mode or night view. Instead you have to buy a $25 remote control (also available for the Elph and Vectis) to do the trick...
...spectacular as they looked. And when I tried to get my film developed, finding same-day APS processing on a Sunday was a pain. Estimates ranged from overnight to three days, until I located a shop (Fromex) on Manhattan's Upper East Side. As for the prints, the Konica did better on close-ups, but overall it was a toss...