Look back into digital history

There's an excellent story about early days of digital and how NC2000 was slowly but steadily making its way into press photographers camera bag. It's a beast of a camera built buy Kodak, sold by AP (who's staff was among the first ones to adopt it), had 1.3 megapixel sensor and by todays standards rather bad of a camera. The pictures (there are lot within this long story) on the other hand are pretty awsome. At least on the web. And if I'm not mistaken they have been used on the cover of Time so must have been good on paper as well.

But there was another side to the equation, he acknowledges. "It was a combination of excitement and anxiety. There was a lot of excitement about how cool this stuff was. You'd show up at an event, and you'd be the only guy with a digital camera, and everybody was ooohing and aaahing. That was always really cool. [But] I could never trust what the camera was doing. When you popped that card into the computer there was always that little thought in the back of your mind: what happened this time, what went wrong? But you kept doing it because it was so cool. And it was where the industry was going."

Link: A look back at the NC2000