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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.

In article <1992Aug18.214345.25931@unocal.com> stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini) writes:
>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.

And why would it be an Asian company who would do this?



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In article <1992Aug19.015109.26290@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
spiff@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.214345.25931@unocal.com>
>stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini) writes:
>>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.
>
>And why would it be an Asian company who would do this?

Ok, let it be a non-USA company then.
It could be a USA company if there's no fine mechanical parts in the
product -- maybe they could buy mechanical parts from an Asian
company. Hmmmm.

It is the fact that Japan is the leader in making this kind of
products for public.


Juhana Kouhia
:-)

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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    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.

In article <1992Aug19.115044.1034@cc.tut.fi>, jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Aug19.015109.26290@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
> spiff@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug18.214345.25931@unocal.com>
>>stgprao@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini) writes:
>>>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.
>>
>>And why would it be an Asian company who would do this?
> 
> Ok, let it be a non-USA company then.
> It could be a USA company if there's no fine mechanical parts in the
> product -- maybe they could buy mechanical parts from an Asian
> company. Hmmmm.
> 
> It is the fact that Japan is the leader in making this kind of
> products for public.
> 
> 
> Juhana Kouhia
> :-)

  And, who may I ask sold to the Soviets machining equipment that made their
submarines many orders of magnitude quieter, while the old Soviet government
was in operation???????  and just for mere money, too.  Quality needs to be
balanced off with responsibility.  It's widely said that Japanese save more
than Americans do, but the flip side is the companies do not provide any
retirement.

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