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- KODAK Offers New Photo CD Disc to Pro Market
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- KODAK Pro Photo CD Master Disc Meets Needs of Professional Photographers
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- New York, Aug. 25 - Professional photographers using large-format films will
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- soon be able to have all their images transferred to a Photo CD disc.
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- KODAK's new professional Photo CD format makes available to professional
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- photographers all the benefits of the standard KODAK Photo CD Master disc.
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- It also provides additional features to meet specialized needs.
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- Like the standard KODAK Photo CD Master format, the KODAK Pro Photo CD
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- Master format allows 35mm negatives or slides to be scanned onto compact
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- discs at full photographic resolution. The images can then be viewed on TV
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- (using a Photo CD or CD-I player) or input to a desktop computer (using a
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- Photo CD-compatible CD-ROM XA drive).
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- In addition, the KODAK Pro Photo CD Master format:
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- - Accomodates 35mm, 120, and 4 x 5-inch images, as well as larger formats
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- - Supports higher-resolution film scans for the larger sizes, yielding
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- images that have the fine detail required by professional photographers
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- - Enables professionals to store versions of their images that have been
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- electronically edited
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- - Helps control how a professional's images are used by offering one
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- copyright and two security features - a special identifier to indicate
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- image ownership and copyright, the ability to place a watermark over an
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- image, and the ability to encrypt high-resolution images to impede
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- unauthorized use
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- "Since the Photo CD system was first announced, KODAK's professional
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- customers have consistently asked for several important capabilities that
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- would allow them to take maximum advantage of this new imaging technology,"
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- said KODAK's David P. Biehn, vice president and general manager,
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- Professional Imaging. "These include the ability to scan multiple film
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- formats, greater flexibility in what photographers can write to Photo CD
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- discs, and assistance in controlling the use of images stored on Photo CD
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- discs.
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- "The KODAK Pro Photo CD Master format we're announcing today was created as
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- a specific response to those needs," Biehn said. "As a result, we're
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- providing professional photographers with a 'digital negative' designed to
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- meet their requirements. We believe it will open the door to new business
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- opportunities."
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- About the KODAK Pro Photo CD Master Format
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- KODAK Pro Photo CD Master discs are compatible with the Photo CD players
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- that began appearing in consumer electronics stores in early August. They
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- represent one of four new disc formats KODAK described today, all of which
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- are compatible with current consumer Phot CD players. The new formats
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- extend benefits of Photo CD technology to new users and markets.
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- Carrying distinctive trade dress. KODAK Pro Photo CD Master discs can store
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- film-based images at higher resolutions than can any of the other formats.
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- They are the only Photo CD discs that allow images to be digitally enhanced
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- and returned to the disc containing the original film scan.
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- Each KODAK Pro Photo CD Master disc can store from 25 to 100 images, which
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- depends on scanning resolution and film size. The format will support
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- 8 x 10-inch film image files, and KODAK is considering future products to
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- take advantage of this capability.
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- Images will be scanned onto KODAK Pro Photo CD Master discs using the KODAK
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- Professional Photo CD film scanner 4045, which handles professional film
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- formats up to 4 x 5-inches, and offers 24-bit color scanning resolutions up
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- to 4K x 6K. The scanner will be sold as part of the KODAK Professional PIW
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- 4200 and the KODAK Pro Photo CD Master discs will be available in Spring
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- 1993.
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- KODAK will offer a more advanced KODAK Professional PIW in the fall of
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- 1993, with an upgrade available for customers who purchase the initial
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- offering. Additional features will include the ability to employ different
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- "film terms" for retaining the subtle differences in professional film
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- brands, the ability to adjust each scan to achieve desired results,
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- watermarking and encryption software and the ability to edit images.
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- Each image on a KODAK Pro Photo CD Master disc is marked with a special
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- identifier that can contain the photographer's name and copyright, as well
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- as other information. For security, images can be watermarked (with a
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- word like "PROOF"), and image files can be encrypted to discourage access by
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- unauthorized users.
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- The encryption is designed to enable photographers to provide a code number
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- to their customers once the rights to use a particular image have been
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- agreed on. Entering the code number into a desktop computer where the disc
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- is accessed through a CD-ROM XA drive will free the image for use.
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- Many professionals may choose to protect their images, however, simply by
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- retaining their high-resolution digital originals on KODAK Pro Photo CD
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- Master discs and distributing lower-resolution versions of the images for
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- review on KODAK Pro Phoo CD Catalog discs.
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- "KODAK Pro Photo CD Master products give professional photographers the best
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- of two worlds," Biehn said. "Professionals can continue to shoot pictures
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- as they always have, taking full advantage of the image quality that only
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- film can provide. And now they have the flexibility and convenience of
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- digital technology."
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- Additional information about the KODAK Pro Photo CD MAster format is
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- available through the KODAK Information Center at 1-800-242-2424, ext. 77.
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