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"A digital camera is a fascinating piece of electronic equipment, in part because its design has proven challenging to manufacturers. Usually, when a product goes from analog to digital there is a resultant increase in quality and/or performance (think audio tape to CD or VHS to DVD) but not so with the camera. In fact, the early incarnations of consumer-level digital cameras were worse that their analog brothers in nearly all respects: size, picture quality, handling, not to mention the exorbitant price tag.
Even today, as the technology matures, wrinkles remain. You will have to spend at least two hundred more dollars than for a film camera if you want a digital camera that produces a photo-quality 8 X 10 inch print."....Read Complete Article
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