PMA '99 Winds Down - New Camera Shipping Dates & Rumors

The dust settles, the vendors pack their bags and displays and grab a taxi to the airport ... PMA 1999 is over. And what a show it was! Lots of new digital goodies everywhere - most we knew about before the show but some, we didn't. Konica slipped in their new Q-M200 right at the bell or else they really can keep a secret.

Olympus and Nikon battled to be recognized as the first 2 megapixel camera on the market. As far as the press releases go - they both claimed to be the "first." The Nikon 950 and Olympus C-2000 cameras look great and fnally offer us real camera controls - to which I say - it's about time! Special thanks to Olympus for including a remote control, I was beginning to wonder if anybody was listening to my desperate cries for reason. OK, now the rest of you guys start doing the same and give us remote controls on all the high-end consumer digicams.

The major players at PMA showed their new 2 MMP (my new digicam buzz word for Multi-MegaPixel) digital cameras. Now it seems as if any camera with less than 2.11 million pixels is headed for the liquidators to be sold for or less. In this game when you snooze you lose big time...the others will pass you by like a speeding bullet!