Olympus reports that in Japan, digital cameras now outsell their film counterparts by four to one and the company expects Europe to soon follow suit. The quality of the images obtainable from today's cameras is light years ahead of the grainy images that came from the first consumer VGA cameras. And there's also a wide range of products on offer. They're also more affordable. One word of caution though, there's still great variation in build and image quality between the different models.
Technological advances continue apace.
CMOS technology, which will capture three times the amount of data as today's top-end 6 Megapixel digital cameras. Surprisingly, digital cameras are now starting to challenge the supremacy of film cameras for image quality as well as sheer convenience. It's always been a big advantage of digital photography that you can easily post-process your images. However, PC Magazine Labs tests showed that an Olympus OM-10 film camera picked up less detail than the best of the 3.3 Megapixel digital cameras. There is a way to get the best from both digital imaging and analogue film.