[telecom] A Camera Takes On the Phones

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A Camera Takes On the Phones

By DAVID POGUE May 1, 2013

Technologies come and go in waves. And lately, the waves are coming and going faster.

Incoming waves: tablets, e-books, movies online. Outgoing waves: Desktop PCs, landline phones, anything on disc, tape or paper.

It's fascinating to watch outgoing industries struggle to remain relevant. Take, for example, the outgoing wave known as pocket cameras. No wonder nobody is buying them anymore. Your phone takes pictures nearly as well and is far more convenient.

You always have your phone with you, and you can transmit the photos wirelessly as soon as you take them.

But Canon, the world's No. 1 camera maker, has dreamed up an ingenious response to the phone-camera threat. It's a camera designed to attack the cellphone threat on three fronts.

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"Anything on disk, tape, or paper"?

I bet David Pogue has never experienced the thrill of loading focal into a PDP-8 via the punched paper tape reader on a Model 33 Teletype!

Bill Horne Moderator