Hi - I am considering on of the new 290 kodaks. I wouldn't think of buying anything until I read your review. When will you have a review on it?

-- Don Stephens (dontwo@juno.com), October 27, 1999

Answers

We just got our eval unit of the DC290 in-house the day before yesterday. We're absurdly backed-up on reviews at the moment (with *12* cameras in-house), but will hopefully be able to get something posted before we jet off to Comdex. (11/14) No firm promises, but stay tuned...

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), October 28, 1999.

Common guys, youse can do better than that, what if we wanted to buy a couple for Xmas presents, the quicker you get the review out the quicker I can start saving! :)

-- Richard Mc Donald (Scorpion@gias.net.au), October 30, 1999.

Yeah, I know - it's ridiculous. I've been wondering if we should significantly trim our reviews and range of sample pics, to get the reviews up quicker. - Sometimes I wonder if anyone *really reads* all that stuff! - OTOH, we used to get a lot of "gee, if you'd only test 'x', it'd be great" emails, the level of which is now far lower. It'd be a lot easier to just snap a few product pictures and a couple of screen shots and post it as a review, but I suspect we'd be back to loads of email asking us for more again. Any thoughts? - We're really wrestling with this, as the reviews are SO labor-intensive to produce! We're actually about 30% through the 290, with 80% of the photography done, and the various power and shutter-delay measurements made. My writer will have the basic text done by mid-week, we could conceivably have the review posted by the middle of next week.

The short notes are that image quality looks pretty good, none of the "crunch" seen in earlier Kodak models. The LCD is light-years better than the DC260/265, actually reasonably responsive. Stay tuned.

-- Dave Etchells (editor@imaging-resource.com), November 01, 1999.

Dave, you are a gentleman and a scholar, and for that, I thank you.

-- Richard Mc Donald (Scorpion@gias.net.au), November 01, 1999.