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...screen around, a memory capable of holding 1,500 high-resolution images and, for an extra $100, wireless communication. But competition is intense, especially in photo printing, which is still where the money is. In film, Kodak had only two major competitors, Fuji Photo Film in Asia and Agfa-Gevaert in Europe. Now, both its old foes are in the printing market, as is the giant HP. And Sony and Canon aside, there are at least a dozen firms making digital cameras...
...market. (ISO is a new international film-speed measuring standard, whose ratings are similar to the previously used American one, ASA.) The company's most popular color print film, Kodacolor II, has a rating of 100. Kodak and several rivals, including Europe's Agfa-Gevaert Group, the Japanese Fuji Photo Film Co. and Minnesota's 3M Co., produce less popular, and more expensive, print films with 400 ratings...
...levers simply befuddled the Sunday photographer, and that telephoto shot of Versailles developed into a study in black. The industry's answer: sophisticated but carefree cameras that require little more than clicking the shutter. At the International Photographic Exposition in New York last week, every company from Agfa-Gevaert to Zeis-Ikon was showing off automated midgets...
...Says Gevaert's President Henri Cappuyns: "I'm convinced that Common Market companies have to grow to Common Market size." Seeking Footholds. President de Gaulle encourages French firms to join, and helped unite glassmaking Saint-Gobain with Pechiney, one of France's largest chemical companies. Because of De Gaulle's policy, many French businessmen expect the eventual linkup of the two big privately owned French automakers, Citroën and Peugeot...
...general, the trend has been hampered by the lack of unified Common Market laws, by the fact that so many European companies are family-owned, and by restrictions on capital transfers. In order to get together and yet not violate national laws, Gevaert and Agfa had to set up separate jointly owned companies in both Belgium and West Germany...