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In article <1992Aug18.214345.25931@unocal.com>, stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini) writes:
| This weeks Time Magazine (Aug 24) has an article about Kodak's image
| processing camera.  Outputs 18 megapixels per image on to CD disk.
| A new law in California created an immediate market for it.  Automobile insurers
| are required this year to photograph vehicles in order to prevent fraud.
| I assume when all the bells and whistles are worked out, some good Asian
| electronics company will figure out how to get the technology cheaply into
| amateur's hands.

  Hate to say it but (a) in NY all the insurer's I've ever heard of do
photos now, and they get their technology from Polaroid. (b) Canon has
the Xapshot camers for ~$500 now, I think we paid about $400 in a
discount store. The old ones have pretty bad resolution (is it really
512 lines???) but the current ones are better. I thought the 250 and 500
in the model number was the lines, honestly. Still, for 20-25 pix on a 2
inch disk, it's pretty nice, and the disk is reusable after you go to
other media. I read the image in, and unless I need to process it later
I JPEG it down to a reasonable size.

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bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.