Word: kodaks
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...essentially a smaller, more convenient version of 35-mm film. In a rare show of unity, Eastman Kodak and Fuji Photo Film--companies that truly, genuinely detest each other--worked with cameramakers to come up with a new design that solves some of photography's most basic problems, including getting the film to thread through the camera correctly (the No. 1 picture-taking pitfall according to industry surveys). With APS cameras, film cartridges are simply dropped in and thread themselves. You also get a choice of three picture sizes (standard, wide and panoramic), and the prints come back with...
...question is, what do you want to end up with?" says Willy C. Shih, president of Kodak's digital-imaging division. If the answer is simply prints to put in your photo album, then a film camera is still the way to go. But for the "pictures-as-information crowd," as Shih calls it, there are plenty of willing suppliers, with new megapixel cameras available now or due shortly from Canon, Casio, Epson, Fuji, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus and others...
...fact, the line between today's film and tomorrow's digital photography is blurring. Some photo developers can already turn your film prints into digital files, a trend that Kodak and Intel hope to nurture with a jointly created Picture CD service slated to begin later this year. Kodak also has a new $349 "film drive" for PCs that converts a roll of APS film into sharp, digitized pictures. Imagek, a unit of Irvine Sensors, is attempting to merge the two worlds inside the camera. Its "electronic film system," which converts any 35-mm model into a digital camera...
Given the delays and cost overruns, space junkies hoping to book a weekend flight to the International Space Station for those great views of the home planet may have to wait. Meanwhile, Kodak and NASA are offering the next best thing over the Web. Next month they will begin selling digital photos shot by real U.S. astronauts from space shuttles, like this one of Lake Michigan. Choose from some 500 images, $14 to $30 apiece, at earth.jsc.nasa.gov
Although the ABL was considered by many to havehad better talent than the WNBA last season, theWNBA has signed 41 of the nation's top graduatingplayers, including four Kodak All-Americans, 13Conference Players of the Year and 28All-Conference First Team selections...