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...division to offset declining profits, is avoiding entry-level dslrs altogether because, notes Fujifilm U.K.'s director of photo products Adrian Clarke, the market is "fiercely competitive." Instead, Fujifilm is banking on the printing business, a strategy that stems from its heritage as a film provider. Sales of its "minilab" printing equipment to British retailers such as Tesco, Boots and Jessops had been reliable for five years, at about 600 units per year. But in 2005, those numbers halved. The company says that major retail customers no longer needed to buy new minilabs, so Fujifilm is now promoting "in-store...
...launch a pair of highly sophisticated landers to Mars. Each will carry a small computer-controlled surface rover, a six-wheeled vehicle capable of traveling as far as 60 miles from the lander. It will be equipped with TV cameras, scoops and drills to sample materials and a minilab to analyze them. With information gained from this mission, the Soviets hope to launch as early as 1998 a larger Mars lander-rover that could return soil samples to earth...
...that got the most attention were those in Viking 2's biology laboratory, the small (1 cu. ft.) package designed to detect life on Mars. This week the lander is to stretch out its robot arm, scoop up a sample of Martian soil and dump it into the minilab, which will repeat the three life-seeking experiments already performed by Viking 1. If the scoop works and all goes according to schedule, the results of these experiments could be in early next week...
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