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A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston

© Mike Johnston 2002

On the off chance that you have not been following the soap opera that is Photokina 2002, a brief recap.
For those of you who may not know, Photokina is the world's largest photo trade show, held every two years in Cologne, Germany. To put you in context, half of the Photo Plus show at the Javits Center in NYC every October is smaller than just the Kodakboothat Photokina. I'm not kidding about this � four years ago, the Kodak booth had 1,300 people staffing it.
Prior to this year's event, we thought we knew the two most important coming news announcements: we'd been hearing rumors for a year that Canon has been working on a 12-million-pixel-super-digital-SLR (current state of the art is half that), and we'd been hearing for about a year and a half that Olympus and Kodak have been working on a new standard for digital camera sensors and designing a supposedly from-the-ground-up system around the new ...

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