As the legend goes, a young engineer at Kodak invented the world's first digital camera in the 1970s, but executives told him ...

The reason for the harsh lighting is to provide a real "torture test" of how cameras handle conditions of extreme contrast; and in particular, how well they do holding onto highlight detail.

The object is to hold both highlight and shadow detail without producing a "flat" picture with muddy colors, and the EasyShare LS753 ... used for the lighting. Kodak's cameras tend to have really ...