Friday, December 24, 1999

Thursday, December 23, 1999

Wednesday, December 22, 1999

Tuesday, December 21, 1999

 - Improvement in white balance control in fixed
   aperture mode. If you select fixed aperture mode in
   manual white balance mode, the image sometimes becomes
   green. This problem has been solved.
 - Improved manual focus accuracy. With some cameras,
   when manual focus is set to infinity, the focus became
   inaccurate. This has also been overcome.
 - Condition under which Preset white balance data is
   reset changed. With Ver. 1.2, the set value by preset
   white balance was reset when fixed aperture mode is
   set to off. With Ver.1.3, the value is not reset when
   this mode is turned off.

Monday, December 20, 1999

 - 1 Megapixel CCD, 30 bit color depth
 - Resolutions of 1440x1080 (interpolated), 1152x864
   1024x768 and 640x480; also a 1152x864 black and
   white mode. 24-bit color JPEG files.
 - 1.8" LCD
 - Clik! card storage media; 40MB disk bundled
 - 2X digital zoom
 - 6 to 11 seconds between pictures dependant on
   resolution
 - Focus free, all glass lens; equivalent to 43 mm
   on a 35mm camera; macro capability
 - Aperture f/2.8 (wide)/ 8.0 (tele)
 - Built-in flash (auto, fill, variable energy, red-eye
   reduction, external flash trigger, off)
 - 10 second self timer
 - NTSC and PAL video out connectivity
 - USB connectivity
 - 5" x 3 1/4" x 1 1/2" dimensions
 - Weighs 265g / 9.33 oz (without batteries)

Friday, December 17, 1999

Thursday, December 16, 1999

Wednesday, December 15, 1999

Tuesday, December 14, 1999

Full Review: Sony DSC-F505!

Monday, December 13, 1999

 - DP-ATA/224; 224MB, $635; $2.83/MB
 - DP-ATA/320; 320MB, $890; $2.78/MB
 - DP-ATA/448; 448MB, $1240; $2.77/MB
 - DP-ATA/512; 512MB, $1400; $2.73/MB

Sunday, December 12, 1999

 - The company's leading position in digital cameras,
   with Kodak the clear market leader in professional format
   digital cameras and one of the top three suppliers of
   consumer digital cameras.
 - Robust revenue growth for digital products, 44% during
   the third quarter of 1999.
 - The company's Health Imaging business is successfully
   moving to a digital model, expecting to generate at
   least 50% of its revenues from digital products during
   2000.
 - A recent survey conducted by the Reputation Institute,
   which ranked Kodak number 7 overall among digital
   companies, shoulder-to-shoulder with Microsoft, Intel,
   Sony, Dell, Lucent and Gateway.
 - In the Document Imaging market, Kodak is the leader in
   the high and mid-range document scanner market.
 - Kodak.com consistently ranks among the top 10 of all
   corporate internet sites and is the foremost site in
   the imaging industry.

Friday, December 10, 1999

Thursday, December 9, 1999

Wednesday, December 8, 1999

 - Corel Photo Slide Show; slide show app with annotation
   and screen saver capability
 - Extensis Intellihance Pro 4.0; image editing app, allows
   for images to be altered by seeing the results of 25
   image settings at once and choosing the best
 - Canto Cumulus Desktop LE 4.0; media management app,
   organizes images and fonts into a searchable catalog
 - Bitstream Font Navigator; font manager for Win95/NT4
 - Corel Texture; create "natural" textures
 - Corel Capture 9; screen capture utility
 - Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0
 - Image and Font libraries (5000 photos, 1000 clipart
   images, 800 fonts, and more)

 - 3.5 x 5" print; 35 cents
 - 4 x 6" print; 45 cents
 - 8 x 10" print; $2.95

Tuesday, December 7, 1999

Sunday, December 5, 1999

Saturday, December 4, 1999

 - Kodak DC-290
 - Fuji MX-1700
 - Epson PhotoPC 850Z
 - Canon PowerShot S10

Friday, December 3, 1999

 - 4 x 6" glossy print; $0.75
 - 5 x 7" glossy print; $3.49
 - 8 x 10" glossy print; $6.99

Wednesday, December 1, 1999

 - 3 x 5 inch print; $1.00
 - 4 x 6 inch print; $1.00
 - 5 x 7 inch print; $1.50
 - 8 x 10 inch print; $4.50

AOL Alert: Several readers connecting via AOL have complained of poor image quality when using the AOL web browser. This is caused by a setting called "compress images" in the browser that causes it to completely mangle images in the interest of faster transmission. You should turn this setting OFF before viewing any of the comparison images on this site.

• FLASH: Thanks to reader Lynn Mannan, here's an explanation of how to make the correct settings adjustments (at least in AOL 4.0 for PCs):
  • I opened the "My AOL" preferences screen in the toolbar across the top. Then I clicked on WWW icon and selected the "web graphics" tab where I unchecked the "compressed graphics" choice and clicked on the Apply button at the bottom. Now the scanner test pictures are gorgeous. The pictures take a long time to load. But they are worth waiting for. Thank you, Lynn!