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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (19)	2/28/2003 10:55:44 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) of 36

What does this mean for Foveon?? Interesting... forbes.com ...Last week Fuji Photo Film updated its line of FinePix digital cameras. The one that will likely have photo enthusiasts buzzing is the F700. It contains a new technology component called a Super CCD SR. A CCD--it stands for charge coupled device--is essentially a memory device that uses transistors to capture light. This CCD, Fuji says, has "Super Dynamic Range," hence the SR. What it all means is that this camera has an effective resolution of 6.2 million pixels, which Fuji claims is a market first. The CCD device has 3.1 million large pixels--called S pixels--with a high sensitivity to light, and another 3.1 million smaller pixels--R pixels--with a low sensitivity to light. The result is an improvement in the range of light the camera is able to record. Images should have more of the visual subtlety and nuances that are more readily visible in analog photography. It can produce images with a maximum resolution of 2,832 pixels by 2,128 pixels. In general, high-end digital cameras aimed at professionals and serious enthusiasts--sometimes called "prosumers"--topped out in the five-megapixel range. And often those cameras have been big and bulky, looking more like their analog siblings than most consumer-oriented digital cameras. The F700 isn't terribly large. It's 4 inches wide, about 2 inches high and an inch deep, weighing in at 6 ounces. It has a 1.8-inch LCD viewfinder on the back of the camera. One persistent frustration with digital cameras has always been startup time. Analog cameras can often shoot just when you want them to (unless you're waiting for the flash to be ready). Digitals cameras need a few seconds from the instant you turn it on. Fuji says this camera starts up in 1.2 seconds. Other features include on-demand continuous auto-focus with the help of a Super EBC Fujinon 3x zoom lens. It uses the xD picture card removable memory card format, which Fuji and Olympus announced together last summer. The camera is compatible with PCs running both Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows and Apple Computer's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Mac OS (OS 9 and OS X). It's expected to ship this spring and has a suggested retail price of $600...

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