Review: Atik 16IC

This article was published in the December 2007 Special Hardware Edition (Volume 3, Issue 7).

Last year, Atik Instruments (http://www.atik-instruments.com) announced the latest addition to their popular 16-series cameras, the Atik 16IC. The line, based on the Artemis cameras, already had the Atik-16 (based on the Sony ICX429) and the Atik-16HR (based on the Sony ICX285) cameras. Both were available in both monochrome and one-shot color variants. Both existing cameras also sport larger chips than the 16IC, which may make the introduction of the 16IC seem a bit puzzling at the outset. Why in these days of bigger and bigger chips does one release something smaller?