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Digital Sizzles in the Desert

I have to admit I'm utterly dazzled by the torrent of news coming out of Las Vegas. Is digital exploding, or what?
If I remember correctly, it was 1998 when my doctor-brother showed up at a Chinese restaurant with a new plaything — a digital camera. I probably smiled with patronizing tolerance. The little thing had about two hundred pixels (2 centipixels?) and it took two minutes between the time you pushed the shutter button and image capture. A lot can happen in two minutes — John Kerry can eclipse Howard Dean, for instance.
I'm exaggerating again, of course...but not significantly. The fact is, in 1998 most photographers couldn't use digital. The good cameras cost an amount that my little boy generically refers to as "a billion dollars," and the consumer cameras were toys — technologically impressive for their time, granted, and impressively expensive, but, photographically, barely more useful than the little plastic camera...

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