Heck, Kodak invented digital photography, but licensed the technology to others as it rabidly pursued defending film sales.

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However with the advent of digital photography and x-ray technology the industrial demand for silver has dropped dramatically.

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After 35 years at Kodak, and five years as its boss, Mr Carp was implicitly conceding the obvious: even though he had correctly identified the mortal threat to the 113-year-old photography giant from digital technology, he had done so too slowly, too late.

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Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program at the Broad Institute, says that he thinks of the technology as being akin to digital photography: it was adopted because it was small and fast, but there was always the potential that it would replace film.

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The Advantix cameras are based on a hybrid digital-and-conventional technology called APS, for Advanced Photography System.

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Sony has been actively promoting the future, the expansion of the product mix and technological development of CMOS image sensor "Exmor RS" stacked core technology to evolve products, digital imaging, spread the enjoyment of photography easier to use, which is a device Go.

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