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Other kiosks are being tested at seven CVS drugstores in Boston. In September a kiosk was shown at the Photokina trade fair in Cologne, Germany, and a test model is being rolled out this month at the department store Karstadt-Oberpollinger in Munich. Applied Science Fiction plans to begin mass production next year and hopes to turn a profit by mid-2004. Though some 23 million digital cameras will be sold this year--nearly double the amount in 2000--the company is confident that film won't expire anytime soon. By year-end, there will be more than a billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faster Photos | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

Strong as ever in the precision quality of their work but slow to innovate, the fine old German camera-making companies have seen their share of the world market slip from 55% eleven years ago to 25% last year. Last week, as shutterbugs swarmed through Cologne's ninth "Photokina," the biggest camera exhibit in the world, the Germans made a big bid to show that they are thinking most positively about negatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Better Focus | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...most memorable to him, since the old Japanese reputation still rankled, is the occasion two years ago when he took the Canonet, along with a 2000-mm. television zoom lens, a 50-mm. lens four times faster than the human eye, and other Canon products to the Cologne Photokina Exhibit. It was a tough audience of German cameramakers to play to. Crows Mitarai: "We demonstrated, and the Europeans admitted, that Japanese products were no longer mere improved copies. They were based on original techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Original Japanese | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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