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To: Winston Kim who wrote (18370)	5/15/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: Gone Bonkers	Respond to of 34592

GNNX up 20% today. $200 mil in contracts. Financials coming out soon. New announcements on the way. This baby is getting ready to explode. Check it out now.

To: Winston Kim who wrote (18370)	5/15/1998 1:14:00 PM
From: Turboe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34592

IRSN is flying, maybe this is the reason: Digital Film threatens Digital camera manufacturers Fri, 15 May 1998 13:32:01 GMT - Munir Kotadia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital camera manufacturers were expecting a lucrative Christmas this year but a new gadget due to go on sale this summer is set to ruin their hopes. The Electronic Film System (EFS-1) can be inserted into any standard 35mm SLR camera allowing high quality digital pictures and, according to analysts, could steal a large chunk of the digital camera market. The technology been developed by Irvine Sensors, based in California and will be manufactured by ImageK. EFS-1 looks like a standard roll of 35mm film, with an extended panel to cover the shutter area. A tiny CMOS imaging chip takes a digital snapshot as the camera shutter is triggered and stores the picture in memory. Current iterations of the film can store up to 30 pictures at megapixel quality (1,300,000 pixels). Nicole Patterson, research analyst at Romtec believes the product could cause serious problems for digital camera manufacturers. She said: "I really think its going to have a tremendous effect [on the digital camera] market. If they market it well, it could potentially have a massive impact on their [digital camera] sales." Patterson claims the UK digital camera market has been booming recently, with growth of 33 percent during February and March this year. Romtec research indicates digital camera sales totalled œ2.4m in March and expects the figure to easily top œ3m for Christmas. "Before this product came along, it looked like being a very good Christmas [for the digital camera manufacturers]." Thierry Bouzac, commercial director for Kodak Digital and Applied Imaging, doesn't believe the EFS-1 system is a threat. He claims that CMOS megapixel technology is of inferior quality to CCD megapixel. Bouzac told ZDNet News: "One million pixels of CMOS technology is the equivalent of VGA CCD technology." Graham Townsend, technical director at Vision, a subsidiary of Vision Group Plc. disagrees. He said: "That is definitely not true so long as the camera system designer has done a good job, you will not notice a difference." Townsend did however admit CMOS technology may have problems in low light situations. He explained: "If CCD is likened to 150 ASA film, then CMOS would be 100 ASA." EFS-1 is expected to reach UK stores before Christmas. Related Stories: News Burst: Digital cameras under pressure VGA digital cameras 'on the way out' according to analysts ZDNet UK \| Latest \| Find Similar Documents