Kodak Professional Discontinues DCS 600, 500 and 300 Series Digital Cameras

Kodak Professional, a division of Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., USA, outlined its DCS digital camera portfolio. The company is dropping the Kodak Professional DCS 600, 500 and 300 series digital SLR cameras. Additions to the portfolio include the Kodak Professional DCS Pro Back digital camera back, the DCS 760 and DCS 720x digital SLR cameras, and the family of Better Light scanning camera backs. In addition, new digital cameras based on Kodak Professional's fifth-generation professional digital camera architecture - emphasizing performance, workflow/connectivity and affordability - are in the planning stages and will be added in the coming months.

Service and support for all of the models being discontinued at this time will be available for at least four years.

Kodak Professional also said at this time, Kodak Professional has no plans to market a DCS model built on a Canon SLR camera body platform. There currently are a number of valid business and technical reasons for concentrating on the Nikon platform; the company said it's possible it will offer a Canon-based camera in the future.