When digital photography was introduced to the professional world, most everyone assumed that it could co-exist with film for some years to come. The first digital cameras in the professional market were heavy (several pounds), slow and incredibly expensive. Some early models cost in excess of $20,000 for a 2 or 3 megapixel professional SLR body. These cameras produced images that were clearly lower in resolution with inferior color when compared to results obtained from traditional films.