Kyocera-Yashica have confounded experts by announcing the Yashica DA-1, which uses the original Mavica method of storing (analogue) images on a two-inch floppy but digitises them in the camera for export to a computer. The camera also has NTSC video output and is expected in the USA by summer 1996. All digital cameras are, in fact, analogue at the taking stage, with A-to-D conversion being carried out immediately in the camera. Yashica's idea of using analogue storage might not be so retrograde as it at first appears, for 2-inch floppies are an inexpensive storage medium when compared with the cost of PCMCIA flash cards.

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This report first appeared as "Hot Shots" in "The Photographer" magazine March and April 1996.
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