Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!ftpbox!motsrd!motcid!smithju From: smithju@motcid.UUCP (Justin A. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Digital Photography Message-ID: <6104@flint15.UUCP> Date: 1 Apr 91 20:28:42 GMT References: Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL Lines: 33 roger_earl@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Roger Earl) writes: >Kodak is planning a full digital photograpy setup for release in 1992. The >plan is for photo developing stores (my wife works in one) to carry these >machines. Kodak's idea of the future is that people will have their film >(yes cameras will still use film) developed into either prints or placed on >CD-Rom (yes the machine will write on CDs). The CD-Rom will allow large >heavy megabyte sized photo quality pics to be stored wheras this was always >too much space for an average Hard Drive. Yes the film>CD way isn't truly >digital but the results are supposed to be marvelous much to the credit of >developer technicians. I also assume that Kodak will release a CD-Rom home >based viewer for people to look at their pictures. Check out the news stores for photography magasines, I have seen several articals on this system in the last few months. It appers that Kodak will offer a picture CD player, that will interface to your TV set, it will also play music CD's. Also there is a colour printer already available that will print these immages. The CD-ROM will be in the same format as existing PC cd-rom readers, so you could suck the pics into your favourite paint program for touchup, although i dont know how you would print them :-) sounds like an interesting system, and if i can afford a cd-rom for my pc, will be looking forward to getting my pics on cd-rom. (i'll still want the negatives thought :-) Justin Smith -- |------------Justin Smith---SYSOP--Orange Crush BBS (708) 359-5379-------------| | USRobotics HST14400/MNP5/V.32/V.42bis | "one thought he was invincible,| |UUNET smithju@motcid.uu.net | the other thought he could fly | |INTERNET motcid!smithju@chg.mcd.mot.com | - they were both wrong" |