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Polaroid hopes that the Spectra will revive its instant-camera sales, which plunged from a record 9.4 million units in 1978 to 3.5 million last year as more and more shutterbugs turned to superior 35-mm cameras. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company says that with the advanced chemistry of Spectra film, the new camera will produce sharper pictures with truer color than did previous models...
...member panel acquitted all three Bulgarian defendants on the technical grounds of insufficient evidence, following a formal recommendation made by Marini last month. Three of the Turkish defendants were acquitted on the same technicality. But one of them, Omer Bagci, was convicted of smuggling into Italy the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol used in the shooting and was sentenced to three years in prison. Agca was also found guilty as charged and given an additional year in jail...
...municipal offices in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday. Then, as the prominent Palestinian moderate and mayor stopped to chat with a local businessman, murder struck. At least one assassin walked up behind Masri and shot him three times in the back with a 7.65-mm pistol. Two of the bullets lodged in his heart. The unidentified hitman fled in the direction of the town's central market-place. Masri died shortly afterward...
Consumers have long been able to buy inexpensive point-and-shoot cameras, but the Maxxum was the first fully automated single-lens reflex product to enable people to take high-quality 35-mm pictures with high-technology ease. Now the year-old Maxxum is attracting rivals. Last week Nippon Kogaku (est. fiscal-1985 sales: $940 million), the maker of Nikon, became the first firm to announce a comparable alternative to Minolta's pioneering model. Like the Maxxum, the Nikon N2020 will use two microchips and a tiny motor inside the camera to focus automatically. The camera, which will be priced...
...Nikon announcement. Said Minolta President Hideo Tashima: "Nikon's move is welcomed, although we expect the competition will intensify. The pie will grow bigger if everyone takes part." The field in fact may soon grow crowded. Canon, Japan's largest camera maker, is expected to introduce a similar 35-mm model later this year. Experts say Olympus and Ricoh are readying their own versions...