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Catching the moment on digital cameras

1 December 2004

CATCH THE MOMENT

Anyone buying the latest digital camera from Kodak, the Easyshare DX7590, is in for a nice surprise: a new feature with a very puzzling name.

The “burst last in last out” feature lets users capture those golden moments – when a player makes or misses a vital shot or a rare bird finally pops out of its nest. The photographer focuses on the target and presses the BLILO button. The camera’s 5-megapixel image chip then starts feeding pictures into a 32-megabyte RAM chip at a rate of two frames per second. When the camera has shot 30 pictures, it starts overwriting the first ones and goes on shooting new…

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