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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...
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...
...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...
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