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SHOWSTOPPER Fuji wowed crowds at the photo industry's annual conference in Las Vegas last week with the first 6.1- megapixel digital camera--nearly twice the resolution of new models from Nikon, Olympus and Sony. The FinePix S1 Pro uses Super CCD technology, which replaces standard square-shaped diodes with more compact octagonal ones for sharper, brighter pics. It's got lots of gewgaws, including multiple-exposure settings, three levels of image compression and a 2-in. liquid-crystal display. Since it won't be out until April, you have a few months to save the $4,000 it will...
NUMBERS GAME Resolution is measured in thousands of pixels per inch. For best-quality still pictures, look for 2-megapixel cameras...
SHARP AND STYLISH For years, digital camera owners have lived like second-class citizens, settling for grainy pics while they waited for prices to fall on high-res models. The wait paid off this spring, when Ricoh, Sony and others introduced the first sub-$1,000, 2-megapixel cameras with near film quality. Now Yashica is improving on the standard with its Samurai 2100DG, which boasts the first 4X optical zoom for sharper pics, and a one-hand design to help eliminate blurring caused by accidental shaking of the camera. Due out Aug. 20, the Samurai weighs...
...ready to make such a claim for digital cameras, which were introduced in 1995. But the technology of capturing pictures as computer data is racing ahead as consumers get comfortable with the technology. The latest "megapixel" models, which snap images composed of more than a million dots, or pixels, can produce pictures that rival film prints--provided you've got a computer, a good color printer, some glossy photo paper and the patience to put it all together. You may need a bigger wallet too: the best consumer models still cost...
...Shih, president of Kodak's digital-imaging division. If the answer is simply prints to put in your photo album, then a film camera is still the way to go. But for the "pictures-as-information crowd," as Shih calls it, there are plenty of willing suppliers, with new megapixel cameras available now or due shortly from Canon, Casio, Epson, Fuji, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus and others...