6. What To Do With Your DCS Pro SLR/n?

We'll come back to this point, but the DCS Pro SLR/n is not aimed at everyone. Its price, first of all, is high enough to scare off the general public, as the camera is geared for passionate amateurs and professionals. Its construction is too light to attract reporters, who are used to all-terrain cameras. And further, its slowness is more than noticeable, which, here again, will leave photojournalists skeptical. In fact, and this is finally what this test demonstrates most clearly, the Kodak SLR/n is aimed essentially at studio photographers, those who can afford the luxury of taking their time while totally controlling lighting.

Once these principles have been laid down, this nonetheless attractive unit still has the advantage of being the only 24x36 digital with a Nikon mount - a crucial point when you consider that competing Nikons offer only 4, 5, and 6 million pixels and reduced sensors (and thus focal-length multiplication) at prices that are barely below the Kodak's (except for the Nikon D70, which while excellent is not really competition, being aimed essentially at a consumer market). So as we've said, a dyed-in-the-wool Nikon user may well have to consider the Kodak.