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5/28/2006

REUTERS: CANON CONSIDERS HALT TO FILM CAMERA DEVELOPMENT

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Canon Chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai (right) and President and COO Tsuneji Uchida during a news conference in Tokyo, May 11, 2006. REUTERS/Issei Kato

This could be the beginning of the end of an era.

“TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Canon Inc. said on Thursday that it would consider halting development of new film cameras as it focuses resources on digital models, the latest sign of the rapidly fading role of film in photography.

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5/24/2006

OPTIMIZING DIGITAL CAMERA FILES

Filed under: General — site admin @ 11:02 am

Rachel, original and optimized files.
Rachel. The original file straight out of the camera is on the left, and the digitally optimized image is on the right. Photos © Jim Doty, Jr.

This is an excerpt from a longer article:

“Point and shoot digital cameras are designed to produce punchy (colorful, high contrast) photos right out of the camera. This saves the average person from doing a lot of digital work on their computer. There is a cost: images that lose valuable photo information that shows up in lost highlight and shadow detail. Pixelation, banding, and other problems can show up in large prints. Fortunately, many of the better point and shoot cameras will allow you to tone down the in-camera image processing if you want to work with the digital files yourself and maximum quality is important.

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