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To: Bill Zeman who wrote (4690)	2/6/1999 3:29:00 AM
From: Bruno Cipolla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

new fuji digital cameras (smartmedia) news.com news.com

To: Bill Zeman who wrote (4690)	2/7/1999 12:43:00 AM
From: Diamondhead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Bill, Yes, that's it. I of course was hoping it would go the other way. Just when you think you have a stock figured out, the overall market will get you. See the last line in this. Lower prices should help move a lot more flash. I trust that China plant will help them keep their margins up. Does anyone have any more information on Toshiba making compactflash. I just checked their web site and couldn't find anything about it. Toshiba seems to have separated out their smartmedia business into a new company called Smartdisk. Any thoughts on what that is about? "Kodak Developer Conference '99 02/1/99 A couple of weeks ago Kodak held it's Kodak Developer Conference '99 in Boston and San Francisco. I managed to spend some time at the Boston session and saw a few interesting things. This report covers the Digita operating environment, DPOF, Meta data and Obsolescence of data. In a second report I'll look at Picture CD. DIGITA Digita is an operating environment developed for digital cameras and printers. Digita is a product developed by FlashPoint, and is included in two of Kodak's current offerings, the DC260 and DC220. It is also used in the Minolta Dimâge EX 1500 camera, and Epson has shown a printer that includes Digita. Digita is accessed through the LCD panel on the back of the camera and uses a simple interface made up of icons and menus. Digita makes it possible to program the camera using Digita Script, a scripting language supported by the environment. Digita Script can be used to control most features of the camera, including adjusting focus, exposure, flash and lens position and even taking the picture and processing it afterwards. Both Kodak and FlashPoint claim that Digita Script is an easy language to use, and if you are a computer programmer then you'll probably agree. However I'm not sure that the average person would want to learn programming to write scripts for their cameras. Either Digita or another company needs to develop some kind of iconic system that can be used to write these scripts. FlashPoint will soon be selling Digita Desktop, an application for use in controlling Digita cameras. This will provide an alternative interface for working with the camera and downloading images, but I don't believe it will help in programming the camera. Kodak demonstrated a script that communicated with a GPS unit attached to the serial port of a DC260 and which added the position information to the image. Kodak will probably offer this as a package along with a GPS (they are finalizing which one.) As another example of scripting, they also demonstrated a script that zoomed the lens while capturing a sequence of images. Scripts are actually text files (though with a .csm extension.) To add a script to a camera, you first connect the camera to the computer. The CompactFlash card of the camera contains a folder labeled System. To add a script you drag the .csm file to the system folder. One person asked if there was a compiled version of scripts -- a way to protect your scripts -- but that is not available at the moment. For more information checks Kodak's developer page, and FlashPoints web page. <www.kodak.com/go/drg> <www.flashpoint.com> And in an unrelated note about Digital Cameras, a person from SanDisk said that Compact Flash memory would be $1 a megabyte in Q1 2000, and 50 cents by the end of the year." Here are some prices AS OF 2/6/99 48 MB CompactFlash SDFB48 $169.00 40 MB CompactFlash SDFB40 $149.00 20 MB CompactFlash SDFB20 $99.00