Konica enters digital camera market

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Another consumer electronics firm crossed into computer technology territory today, as Konica announced it will launch its version of a "megapixel" digital camera tomorrow.

The Japanese camera company said it will introduce its first consumer digital camera, the Q-M100, at the Photo Marketing Association convention tomorrow in New Orleans.

Despite the growing popularity of the Internet, a medium hungry for

Konica Q-M100

digital imagery, the digital camera market's growth to date has been stymied because the picture quality of most digital cameras has fallen well short of traditional cameras. But to a certain extent, that problem has been alleviated by the advent of "megapixel" cameras, or cameras capable of onscreen resolutions exceeding 1 million pixels.

The Q-M100 features 1.08 million-pixel resolution, which still does not equal the picture quality of traditional photographs, but is among the highest-resolution digital cameras for amateurs on the market.

Konica's Q-M100 features an auto-focus lens with 2X zoom, a 1.8-inch LCD monitor to view the images, a built-in video port, a 4MB Compact Flash memory card that can store up to 50 images, and Adobe's PhotoShop image editing software. The Q-M100 uses JPEG file compression to transfer images to a PC.

Konica did not reveal how much the Q-M100 would cost.

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