Digital Comes Into Focus

Cannon PowerShot Pro 1

Still skeptical that digital cameras can match film's picture quality? Zoom in on two point-and-click cameras scheduled for worldwide release over the next month. Both the Canon PowerShot Pro 1 and the Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom snap individual photos containing as many as eight megapixels. Two to three megapixels is considered sufficient resolution for a decent 10-cm-by-15-cm print; so isn't eight overkill for the average consumer? It might be, except that advances in home printer and paper technology make it easier, cheaper and faster to print high-quality A4-size (and larger) renditions of family photos, so cameras need to keep pace. With...

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