Diving into a Digital Sea

Products from DuPont, Kodak, Phase One and Sony range from digital backs for existing cameras to full systems complete with software SCSI interface to a computer—often through Adobe Photoshop, for image manipulation and direct connection to a digital color printer for proofing. Features range from eight-bit to 36-bit color, with image sizes up to 8x10˝, resolutions up to 6 million pixels and exposures equivalent to 100 to 800 ISO.