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...Canon's turn. At a New York City press conference last week, Fujio Mitarai, president of the Japanese company's U.S. subsidiary, formally introduced the SVS (for still-camera video system), a six-piece array of equipment that includes a 2.2-lb. electronic camera. Like Sony's earlier product, the SVS records images as impulses that can be transmitted electronically. Canon U.S.A. says the SVS will be available in August...
...company's main innovation is a computer microchip called a charge- coupled device, which takes the place of the film roll in the camera. The CCD, manufactured for Canon by Dallas-based Texas Instruments, converts incoming light into electronic signals that are recorded on the floppy. The disk measures only 2 in., but can store up to 50 pictures, vs. 24 to 36 images on conventional 35-mm film, and is reusable. After shooting, the photographer can pop the disk into a recorder to view the images on a TV screen or reproduce them on a special printer...
There are still bugs in Canon's system. The pictures that the CCD produces, while perfectly usable, are not up to still-photography standards. The CCD can store only 380,000 pixels, or individual picture elements, the tiny dots that form an image. A normal 35-mm photograph contains 18 million pixels. Canon is working on the problem, however, and rival Eastman Kodak says it has already developed a chip that can store up to 1.4 million pixels...
...Canon's new system, by no means cheap, is initially aimed at professionals. The price tag for the SVS is $35,800, and Canon expects that in the first year demand will be limited to about 1,000 units. But Sony and competitors like Nikon and Kodak are developing similar equipment, and industry experts say an all-electronic system costing under $10,000 is five to ten years away. Says Eugene Glazer, a technology analyst at Dean Witter Reynolds: "Canon has developed a technology that will one day make conventional cameras obsolete...
American law is inherently a fluid canon, and rightly so. The "legal establishment" which ridicules Meese so thoroughly today was a tiny minority at one time, and no doubt will one day be so again. It is simply not true to say that Meese has committed some sort of outrageous heresy against fundamental, cast-in-stone legal precepts. Meese, like any active and important leader in American legal matters, simply has a strong point of view (one incidentally shared by many thousands of lawyers, politicians and judges). That he happens to hold a profoundly conservative bias apparently miffs some Harvard...