Fujifilm Finds More Consumers Printing Their Digital Photos at Retail Locations

April 14, 2004 Rise in digital camera ownership, coupled with trend in growing awareness of retail printing, positive sign for retail photofinishing market  Photo Film U.S.A., Inc., a pioneer in digital imaging products and services, today announced the results of its Year Three Digital Camera Retail Printing Study. The study reveals that the percentage of consumers now aware that they can print digital images at retail locations has doubled since the Year Two study. In addition, the survey, conducted by InfoTrends Research Group for Fujifilm in January 2004, shows a significant increase in the number of consumers now choosing to print at retail. The study surveyed the preferences of digital camera owners and prospective buyers in the areas of digital camera use, printing and storing of digital images.

Today, more than 30 percent of U.S. households own at least one digital camera(1). That number is expected to reach 40 percent by the end of 2004. As digital images proliferate, consumers must store and manage their pictures. Currently, a quarter of digital camera users employ printing as a method of storing images. This number is expected to rise in proportion to increasing image management needs in the future.

New One Gigabyte CompactFlash Elite Pro Card High-Capacity Media Storage for Advanced Amateur and Professional Photographers

April 12, 2004 Kingston^® Technology Company, Inc. the world’s leading independent memory manufacturer, today announced the immediate availability of a 1 GB CompactFlash. Elite Pro. card featuring the latest in high-density flash components. Kingston.’s newest 1 GB CompactFlash Elite Pro provides a low, price per megabyte solution of reliable, high-speed media.

ColorPlus by PANTONE COLORVISION

ColorVision and Pantone Ship ColorPlus; Offer Consumers Easy, Reliable Monitor Calibration for Under $100 Produce Stunning Photos Using the Tools Professionals Rely on for Color Accuracy ColorVision, Inc., the recognized leader in affordable digital color management, and Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color, announced ColorPlus(TM), the newest addition to the PANTONE(R) COLORVISION(R) product line. ColorPlus is an affordable monitor calibration tool for consumers and photo hobbyists that calibrates a monitor to produce stunning photos in a few easy steps.

According to Lyra Research of Massachusetts, one in four U.S. households owned a digital camera in 2003. Additionally, 73 billion digital pictures were saved to computer hard drives worldwide in 2003. That figure is expected to grow to 170 billion by 2007.

Kodak's Tech Brief - The Genetics of Pro SLR Digital Cameras

April 1, 2004 In the world of digital single-lens reflex cameras those favored by professional photographers balance can mean everything. Using a large lens with a small image-capturing sensor means compromising the wide-angle shots those lenses are designed to produce until now.

Kodak's Tech Brief for March looks at the "genetics" of professional digital cameras the science and sensors that deliver full-frame, high-resolution images in new digital SLR cameras used by portrait, commercial and wedding photographers.